Donald Trump Quotes

I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Trump's victory clearly appears to stem from a sense of economic powerlessness, or a fear of losing power, among his supporters. To them, his simple slogan, 'Make America great again,' sounds like 'Make You great again': economic power will be given to the multitudes without taking anything away from the already successful.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.