Donald Trump Quotes

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

If the oil price goes down, Russia will go down. You can track the Ruble, you can track the stock market, just off the price of oil.

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

I think oil prices are down for two reasons. One is, there is a lot of supply. There is a lot of supply because the U.S. now produces a lot of oil and there is a lot of supply because the Saudis seem to want to produce a lot of oil, maybe to punish the Iranians and the Russians.

The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.

I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.

Donald Trump is a threat economically to America.

I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

We are not going to let Donald Trump bankrupt America the way he bankrupted his casinos.

Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.

Oil production, energy production are growing, though the latter has gone down by about 1 percent here, I believe... By the way, we occupy the first place in the world in gas export, accounting for 20 percent of the world market. We are also first in the sphere of liquid hydrocarbons export.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.