Donald Trump Quotes

I'm for making sure Americans get jobs before other people do, and I'm not going to let jobs get outsourced overseas, like Romney let happen.

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

A protective tariff would be collected only from those whose pride, whose abundance of means, prompts them to spurn manufacturers of our own country ...

President Trump promised to negotiate trade agreements to get better deals for America and protect American jobs. Bottom line: He delivered.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

I'm tired of seeing American jobs, manufacturing, and headquarters forced overseas due to a tax code that works against us.

We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

We're not in the business of taking large operations in the U.S. and moving them overseas.

Trump stood up to the failed Biden trade doctrine that filled our shelves with Chinese goods and loaded our ships with American jobs headed overseas.

It's extraordinary to me - you cannot name a presidential candidate in history who has singlehandedly, through bad trade deals, destroyed more American jobs and more American factories than Hillary Clinton. She did NAFTA, she did China's entry into the World Trade Organization, she did the South Korean 2012 deal - every single one of those.

While the Washington swamp, which loves shipping American jobs offshore to make a buck or Euro, is already rising up against the proposed legislation, the USRTA is just plain common sense.

I am going to bring back our jobs to Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York and Michigan and all of America. And I am not going to let companies move to other countries, firing their employees along the way without consequence. Not going to happen anymore.

We want products made in America, made by American hands. You probably saw the Keystone pipeline I approved recently.

The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don't - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don't work well for America.

What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore.

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico.

We want to make America great again. We want to bring back our industry, we want to bring back our jobs from China and Japan, and by the way Mexico, which has taken so many of our jobs. And that's what it's about. I have not heard about these incidences.

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

If I win, day one, we are going to announce our plans to renegotiate NAFTA.

Hillary Clinton's position on policy on markets and trade is very plain, which is we'll do trade deals but only if they meet three criteria, increase American jobs and wages and are they good for national security. If they are and if we can enforce them, then trade deals are okay. If not, we can't embrace them.

Hillary Clinton wants to put the great miners and the great steelworkers of America out of work and out of business. That will never happen with Donald J. Trump as president. Our steelworkers and our miners are going back to work again!

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

I just think we've had years and years of allowing our jobs to be dissipated in America, and there's no reason for it.

Our country was built, to a large extent, on protecting our manufacturers. If you go back to Jefferson, you go back to all of these great, great people that ran the United States properly, it was really based on a certain form of tariff and a certain form of protection. We're just the opposite now.