I have never fired anyone or kept anyone because of ratings or because of entertainment. I keep the people that I think are the best.

If you have a problem with someone you have to go after them, and it's not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it's to teach all the people that are watching a lesson that you don't take crap, and if you do take crap, you're just not going to well

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

These people [supporters] are fervent. They are really want to see positive things happen for our country.

To be honest I inherited a mess. It's a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.

Things change. There has to be flexibility. Let me give you an example. President Xi, we have a, like, a really great relationship. For me to call him a currency manipulator and then say, “By the way, I'd like you to solve the North Korean problem,” doesn't work. So you have to have a certain flexibility, Number One. Number Two, from the time I took office till now, you know, it's a very exact thing. It's not like generalities.

I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.