America and the World
[DT] “In general, my philosophy is to stay as close to home as possible. Travel is time-consuming and, in my opinion, boring—especially compared with the fun I have doing deals in my office. I can never understand people who say that if they had a lot of money they would spend their time traveling. It’s just not my thing.”—Trump: Surviving at the Top, Random House, 1990
[HRC] “I’ve had some adventures some decades ago that I think set me up for just knowing that, once I put myself on the plane, I was just going to have to take a deep breath and hopefully enjoy it.”—interview with Politico, April 6, 2016
[DT] “She did one thing: she did a lot of traveling, I think she worked hard. She did a lot of traveling, she was always on planes going back and forth. But she also lied.”—interview on Bloomberg TV’s With All Due Respect, March 23, 2016
[HRC] “Maybe all the problems everywhere will be worked out by the time we land.”—interview with Condé Nast Traveler, flying 19,000 miles with Secretary of State Clinton, August 12, 2012
[DT] “Brooklyn [is the most dangerous place in the world I’ve been to]. [laughter] No, there are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world.”—interview with The New York Times Magazine, May 22, 2016
[DT] “I have to fight back the way I have to fight back.”—interview on Fox News, May 23, 2016
[HRC] “My doctrine is the Goldilocks Doctrine—not too hot, not too cold, just right.”—The Atlantic, May 10, 2011
[DT] “Unlike other candidates for the presidency, war and aggression will not be my first instinct. A superpower understands that caution and restraint are really truly signs of strength.”—first speech on foreign policy, Washington, DC, April 27, 2016
[HRC] “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.”—foreign policy speech, San Diego, California, June 2, 2016
[DT] “After what she said about me today in her phony speech, that was a phony speech, that was a Donald Trump hit job. I will say this! Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, okay? She has to go to jail—has to go! That was a phony hit job! She’s guilty as hell!”—campaign rally, San Jose, California, June 2, 2016
[DT] “In Crooked Hillary’s telepromter [sic] speech yesterday, she made up things that I said or believe but have no basis in fact. Not honest!”—Twitter, June 3, 2016
[HRC] “You literally said all those things.”—Twitter, June 3, 2016
[DT] “We have great relationships with many foreign countries, but they have to respect us and they have to understand where we’re coming from. And you know it is a two-way street. And the two-way street means that we’re going down one side and they’re coming up the other.”—victory speech following Indiana presidential primary, Trump Tower, New York City, May 3, 2016
[HRC] “I don’t think we can take a risk on a loose cannon like Donald Trump running our country. I do think he is a loose cannon, and loose cannons tend to misfire.”—interview on CNN, May 4, 2016
[DT] “Whenever there’s a big problem—national security–type problem—I go up [in the polls] because people view me as much stronger. And they actually think that I—I think they feel I’m much more competent. I think every time we have a problem in the world I do better.”—interview on Bloomberg TV’s With All Due Respect, March 23, 2016
[HRC] “The one thing [President Obama] did mention was he basically said: `You know, we’ve got this major economic crisis that may push us into a depression. I’m not going to be able to do a lot to satisfy the built-up expectations for our role around the world. So you’re going to have to get out there and, you know, really represent us while I deal with, you know, the economic catastrophe I inherited.’”—interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, January 7, 2013
[DT] “I do know my subject.…I wouldn’t want them to know what my real thinking is.”—interview with The New York Times on foreign policy, March 25, 2016
[HRC] “He says he doesn’t have to listen to our generals or ambassadors, because he has—quote—’a very good brain.’ He also said, ‘I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.’ You know what? I don’t believe him.”—speech on foreign policy, San Diego, California, June 2, 2016
[DT] “It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway.”—The Washington Post, 1984
[HRC] “Imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States. Imagine him deciding whether to send your children into battle. Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal when he’s angry, but America’s entire arsenal.”—speech on foreign policy, June 2, 2016
[DT] “I’ll tell you one thing [on whether he’d use tactical nuclear weapons against ISIS]. This is a very good-looking group of people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I’m talking to?”—meeting with the Washington Post editorial board, March 21, 2016
[DT] “Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!”—Twitter, June 24, 2016 [People in Scotland voted in favor of the UK staying in the EU by 62% to 38%.]
[HRC] “We respect the choice the people of the United Kingdom have made. Our first task has to be to make sure that the economic uncertainty created by these events does not hurt working families here in America.”—statement to the press reacting to the United Kingdom’s historic vote to leave the European Union, June 24, 2016
[DT] “It’s always the will of the people. Ultimately, that wins out. They’ve taken back their independence. And that’s a very, very important thing.”—press conference at his Trump Turnberry golf course, Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016
[DT] “I’m a negotiator, like you folks.”—speech to Republican Jewish Coalition, Washington, DC, December 3, 2015
[HRC] “Since my first visit to Israel thirty-five years ago, I have returned many times and made many friends. I have worked with and learned from some of Israel’s great leaders—although I don’t think Yitzhak Rabin ever forgave me for banishing him to the White House balcony when he wanted to smoke.”—speech to the annual policy meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington, DC, March 21, 2016
[DT] “I don’t want to get into it.…Let me be sort of a neutral guy [in the conflict between Israel and Palestine].”—MSNBC town hall, Charleston, South Carolina, February 17, 2016
[HRC] “America can’t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel’s security and survival.”—speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington, DC, March 21, 2016
[DT] “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.”—speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington, DC, March 21, 2016
[HRC] “Some of us remember a woman, Golda Meir, leading Israel’s government decades ago and wonder what’s taking us so long here in America?”—speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington, DC, March 21, 2016
[DT] “You’re not going to support me, even though you know I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel. And I’ll be that. And I know why that is: you’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money.”—speech to Republican Jewish Coalition, Washington, DC, December 3, 2015
[DT] “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow—if so, will he become my new best friend?”—Twitter, June 18, 2013
[HRC] “Well, my relationship with him [Putin], it’s—it’s interesting.…It’s one, I think, of respect…like many bullies, he is somebody who will take as much as he possibly can unless you do.”—Democratic presidential debate, Charleston, South Carolina, January 17, 2016
[DT] “I believe I would get along with a lot of the world leaders that this country is not getting along with. I think I will get along with Putin, and I will get along with others, and we will have a much more stable world.”—Republican two-tiered primary debate on CNN, September 16, 2015
[HRC] “If Mr. Trump gets his way, it will be like Christmas in the Kremlin. It will make America less safe and the world more dangerous.”—speech at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 23, 2016
[DT] “When people call you brilliant, it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.”—interview on MSNBC, December 18, 2015
[HRC] “There’s no risk of people losing their lives if you blow up a golf course deal. But it doesn’t work like that in world affairs. Just like being interviewed on the same episode of 60 Minutes as Putin was is not the same as actually dealing with Putin.”—speech on foreign policy, San Diego, California, June 2, 2016
[DT] “Frankly, Putin has built up their military again and again and again. Their military is much stronger. He’s doing nuclear, we’re not doing anything. Our nuclear is old and tired, and his nuclear is tippy top from what I hear.”—campaign rally, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 2016
[DT] “But we take care of Germany, we take care of Saudi Arabia, we take care of Japan, we take care of South Korea. We take—every time this maniac from North Korea does anything, we immediately send our ships. We get virtually nothing.”—GOP presidential debate, Miami, Florida, March 10, 2016
[HRC] “He [Trump] said, ‘You’ve got to give Kim Jong-un credit’ for taking over North Korea—something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie.”—speech on foreign policy, San Diego, California, June 2, 2016
[DT] “I wouldn’t go there [North Korea], that I can tell you. If he [Kim Jong-un] came here, I’d accept him, but we wouldn’t have a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people who rip us off.”—campaign rally, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 2016
[HRC] “Unless you believe the United States should not send diplomats to any place that is dangerous, which I do not, then when we send them forth, there is always the potential for danger and risk.”—CNN Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 13, 2015
[HRC] “Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference—at this point, what difference does it make?”—Senate committee hearing, January 23, 2013
[DT] “With all of the [sic] Crooked Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy experience, she has made so many mistakes—and I mean real monsters! No more HRC.”—Twitter, June 2, 2016
[HRC] “It is deeply unfortunate that something as serious as what happened in Benghazi could ever be used for partisan political purposes.…I’m hoping that we can move forward together.”—Benghazi Congressional hearing, October 22, 2015
[DT] “You remember the famous ad—when they call at three in the morning, who’s going to be there to answer the call? She was sleeping. They called. They kept calling. Did you see hundreds and hundreds of e-mails and calls? And they kept calling and she was sleeping, folks. She was sleeping. I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much.”—campaign rally, Anaheim, California, May 25, 2016
[HRC] “I would imagine I have thought more about what happened than all of you put together…I have lost more sleep than all of you put together. I have been racking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been done.”—Benghazi Congressional hearing, October 22, 2015
[DT] “I watched maybe five or six minutes, maybe ten minutes, her opening remarks, and the way she was reading them, it sounded terrible. The whole thing sounded terrible.”—radio interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, October 22, 2015
[HRC] [On enduring the hearing] “Yoga always helps.”—Benghazi Congressional hearing, October 22, 2015
[HRC] “The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled.”—The Atlantic, August 2014
[DT] “So are we going to start World War III over Syria?”—interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, October 11, 2015
[HRC] “We don’t want American troops on the ground in Syria. I never said that. What I said was we had to put together a coalition.”—CNN Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 13, 2015
[DT] “Two hundred thousand people? This could be the greatest Trojan horse. This could make the Trojan horse look like peanuts if these people [Syrian refugees] turned out to be a lot of ISIS.”—interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, October 11, 2015
[HRC] “I have a plan to go after ISIS. Not to contain them, but to defeat them. It has three parts. First, deprive them of territory they occupy in Syria and Iraq. Second, dismantle their network of terrorism. Third, do more to keep us safe. We have to have an American-led air campaign, we have to have Arab and Kurdish troops on the ground. We have got to go after everything from North Africa to South Asia and beyond. Here at home, we have to share information and work closely with Muslim-Americans.”—ABC/WMUR Democratic primary debate, Manchester, New Hampshire, December 19, 2015
[DT] “Another radical Islamic attack, this time in Pakistan, targeting Christian women & children. At least 67 dead, 400 injured. I alone can solve.”—Twitter, March 27, 2016
[HRC] “When you say you’re going to bar all Muslims, you’re sending evidence to the Muslim world, and you’re also sending a message to terrorists. Donald Trump is essentially being used as a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism.”—interview on CNN, May 19, 2016
[DT] “Look at the carnage all over the world including the World Trade Center, San Bernardino, Paris, the USS Cole, Brussels and an unlimited number of other places. She [Hillary Clinton] and our totally ignorant President won’t even use the term Radical Islamic Terrorism. And by the way, ask Hillary who blew up the plane [EgyptAir Flight 804] last night—another terrible, but preventable tragedy.”—statement on donaldjtrump.com, May 19, 2016
[HRC] “From my perspective, it matters what we do more than what we say. And it mattered we got bin Laden, not what name we called him. I have clearly said we—whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I’m happy to say either. I think they mean the same thing.”—interview on CNN, June 13, 2016
[DT] “I have been hitting Obama and Crooked Hillary hard on not using the term Radical Islamic Terror. Hillary just broke—said she would now use!”—Twitter, June 13, 2016
[DT] “I’m never going to rule anything out—I wouldn’t want to say. Even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t want to tell you that because at a minimum, I want them to think maybe we would use them [tactical nuclear weapons against the Islamic State].”—interview on Bloomberg TV’s With All Due Respect, March 23, 2016
[HRC] “Terrorists have struck again in the heart of one of our NATO allies—and all Americans stand united with the people of Turkey against this campaign of hatred and violence. Already, stories of heroism on the part of Turkish police are emerging, as their quick actions to confront the suspects may have prevented an even worse tragedy. Today’s attack in Istanbul only strengthens our resolve to defeat the forces of terrorism and radical jihadism around the world. And it reminds us that the United States cannot retreat. We must deepen our cooperation with our allies and partners in the Middle East and Europe to take on this threat. Such cooperation is essential to protecting the homeland and keeping our country safe. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the Turkish people.”—statement to the press following terrorist attack on Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey, June 28, 2016
[DT] “The terrorist threat has never been greater. Our enemies are brutal and ruthless and will do anything to murder those who do not bend to their will. We must take steps now to protect America from terrorists, and do everything in our power to improve our security to keep America safe.”—statement to the press following terrorist attack on Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey, June 28, 2016
[DT] “They’ll [the military] do as I tell them [follow his potentially extra-legal orders to, for example, kill the family of a suspected terrorist].”—GOP presidential debate, Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 2016
[HRC] “His [Trump’s] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United States, international law when it comes to torture.”—interview with Business Insider, Purchase College, New York City, March 31, 2016
[DT] “We have to—I would bring it [waterboarding] back, yes. I would bring it back. I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us, what they’re doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head. That’s a whole different level and I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation.”—interview on ABC’s This Week, November 22, 2015
[HRC] “Today we can say again in a loud and clear voice, the United States should never condone or practice torture anywhere in the world,”—accepting the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award, New York City, December 16, 2014
[DT] “Well, I tend to err on the side of security, I must tell you, and I’ve been there for longer than you would think. But, you know, when you have people that are beheading if you’re a Christian and frankly for lots of other reasons, when you have the world looking at us and would like to destroy us as quickly as possible, I err on the side of security, and so that’s the way it is, that’s the way I’ve been, and some people like that, frankly, and some people don’t like that.”—radio interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, December 1, 2015
[HRC] “The last thing we need, my friends, are leaders who incite more fear. In the face of terror, America doesn’t panic. We don’t build walls or turn our backs on our allies. We can’t throw out everything we know about what works and what doesn’t and start torturing.”—campaign stop in Seattle, Washington, March 22, 2016
[DT] I’m not taking cards [using nuclear weapons in Europe] off the table.”—interview on MSNBC, played on Meet the Press, April 3, 2016
[HRC] “I’ve always been in the camp that held that they [Syria] did not have a right to enrichment. Contrary to their claim, there is no such thing as a right to enrich. This is absolutely unfounded. There is no such right.”—The Atlantic, August 2014
[DT] “You have so many countries already—China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia—you have so many countries right now that have them. Now, wouldn’t you rather, in a certain sense, have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?”—CNN town hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 29, 2016 [A senior Japanese government official quickly reiterated that it was Japan’s policy never to possess nuclear weapons.]
[HRC] “It’s no small thing when he suggests that America should withdraw our military support for Japan, encourage them to get nuclear weapons, and said this about a war between Japan and North Korea—and I quote—‘If they do, they do. Good luck, enjoy yourself, folks.’…I wonder if he even realizes he’s talking about nuclear war.”—speech on foreign policy, San Diego, California, June 2, 2016
[DT] “So I’ve been doing deals for a long time. I’ve been making lots of wonderful deals, great deals. That’s what I do. Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our [nuclear] deal with Iran. And I mean never.”—campaign rally in Washington, DC, September 11, 2015
[HRC] “I’m very pleased we got that nuclear agreement. It puts a lid on the nuclear weapons program. We have to enforce it, there have to be consequences attached to it. But that is not our only problem with Iran. We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.”—Democratic presidential debate, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, February 4, 2016
[DT] “She doesn’t understand trade. Her husband signed perhaps in the history of the world the single worst trade deal ever done. It’s called NAFTA.”—victory speech following Indiana presidential primary, Trump Tower, New York City, May 3, 2016
[HRC] “I’ve been for trade agreements, I’ve been against trade agreements, voted for some, voted against others, so I want to judge this [Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP] when I see exactly what exactly is in it and whether or not I think it meets my standards.”—primary event, New Hampshire, May 22, 2015
[DT] “Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. We have people that are controlled by special interests. And it’s just not going to work.”—announcement speeches of 2016 presidential hopefuls, June 16, 2015
[HRC] “I said I would like to renegotiate NAFTA when I ran in 2008. And I currently oppose TPP in its current form.”—interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, June 26, 2016
[DT] “She will betray you again [by backing free-trade agreements].”—speech on trade, Monessen, Pennsylvania, June 28, 2016