Donald Trump Quotes

Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.

They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Some cultures and some religions do better than others in promoting democracy and prosperity…. Where culture is adverse, a blind belief in the power of freedom is a frail foundation for U. S. policy.

Where nationalism is the main issue, the demand for democracy always takes second place.

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

Democracy cannot flourish in economic ruin.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

Freedom has many flaws and our democracy is imperfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

… a propositional nation is obliged to open its borders to strangers “yearning to breathe free,” but it is also justified in engaging in endless crusades to impose its propositions on the rest of the world

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

For me, sacrificing Israeli democracy is not something I can agree to.

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.

And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.

Free nations are the best vehicle for expressing the will of the people. And America respects the right of all nations to chart their own path.

Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.