America is dying at 1 percent GDP.

Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.

Our country was built, to a large extent, on protecting our manufacturers. If you go back to Jefferson, you go back to all of these great, great people that ran the United States properly, it was really based on a certain form of tariff and a certain form of protection. We're just the opposite now.

I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

Let Obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier, and I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail.