Time to Get Tough Quotes

“The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay? . . . Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong. Any system that discourages work, discourages productivity, discourages economic progress, is wrong. If, on the other hand, you reduce tax rates and allow people to spend or save more of what they earn, they’ll be more industrious; they’ll have more incentive to work hard, and money they earn will add fuel to the great economic machine that energizes our national progress. The result: more prosperity for all—and more revenue for government.4”
― Donald Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.1   —President Gerald Ford”
― Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“President Reagan put it best: “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
― Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“No one can match America. We have big hearts—and the courage to do what’s right. But we’re not the world’s policemen. And if we have to take on that role, we need to send a clear message that protection comes at a price. If other countries benefit from our armed forces protecting them, those countries should cover the costs. Period.”
― Donald Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“America is one of the few places in the world where a “poor” person can still be obese.6”
― Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“Open markets are the ideal, but if one guy is cheating the whole time, how is that free trade?”
― Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“It’s the utter weakness and failure to fight for American interests from Geithner and Obama that have left us underwriting China’s economic rise and our own economic collapse.”
― Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“Stop and think about it: even just leveling the playing field with China for a decade would be the equivalent of one-fifth of our national debt (and would have been one-third of our debt had we not elected the community organizer). You add in several hundred billion a year from putting OPEC in line, hundreds of billions from negotiating properly with the many other countries that are ripping us off, root out the hundreds of billions of incredible fraud that occur every year (more on that later), and now we have a debt problem America can manage—one where we can attack waste and abuse and whittle down the remaining debt to get our fiscal house in order. So that’s the first step: bringing home the hundreds of billions of dollars that the petro thugs at OPEC and our enemy China steal from us every single year—and then go after all of the others.”
― Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

“His mouthpiece in Venezuela, ViVe TV, issued a press release in January 2010, saying the 200,000 innocent victims of the awful Haiti earthquake were really killed by an American “earthquake weapon.”11”
― Donald Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!