Donald Trump Quotes

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

I can walk the length of the country at night only guided by the light of my effigies burning.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

The fact that people gather with placards is abnormal. Other countries would not allow that. Our democracy is in many cases excessive.

This is an unlawful march. It will not be allowed to continue…. Troopers Advance!

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

Any attempt at demonstrating (rallies) will immediately result in adequate and strict reaction by the armed forces.

Sometimes I feel like the government is more afraid of people telling the truth than they are of the protests and violence.

Everybody handles protesters differently.

While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.

Teenagers should never fear for their safety when they join their families to support - or oppose - the President.

Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

It doesn't matter how much more you have in your bank; if 50,000 people show up to your opponents' rallies and you only have a few hundred people, it says a lot about what the people of America are ready to do.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'

If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice their disapproval of the G-20. Their basic message being, Stop all your globalizing and unite the world!

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.