Donald Trump Quotes

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.

Hillary Clinton wants their vote, and she does nothing, and then she comes back four years later.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

Hillary Clinton's all talk. It doesn't get done. All you have to do is take a look at her Senate run. Take a look at upstate New York.

I've been critical of Hillary Clinton and [Barack] Obama, for sure. But John McCain had a proven record as a senator. He also ran for president [in 2016]. But he got a lot of stuff done while he was a United States senator and still does.

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

That's my point: What's she [Hillary Clinton] got to show for her 30 years around town? Right on!

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.

He's a terrible politician, but he makes a fine senator and public servant.

Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

I've been a city councilman and mayor. I've been a lieutenant governor and governor and now, in the Senate, serve on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee. So I'm a utility player. I just want to do everything I can to make sure A) we win and that B) the presidency of Hillary Clinton is fantastic.

I think you gotta go forward with the things you campaigned on.