Donald Trump

"In the past our free market capitalist system has created more wealth and prosperity than any government-controlled economy could ever dream of doing." "Most of us think the American Dream is a birthright, but without constant care and vigilance, it can and will be whittled down to nothing. The threatening agent is not some foreign power, but people who don’t understand the proper relationship between the public and private arenas. In other words, the greatest threat to the American Dream is the idea that dreamers need close government scrutiny and control. Job one for us is to make sure the public sector does a limited job, and no more."

"No doubt you work hard for your money--I know I do--and you should be permitted to keep more of it. Anything less creates a disincentive for a strong national work ethic. President Ronald Reagan saw it the same way: 'The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work.' My 5-part tax plan involves reforming the income tax. The government confiscates way too much of your paycheck; Up to $30,000, you pay 1% From $30,000 to $100,000, you pay 5% From $100,000 to $1 million, you pay 10% On $1 million or above, you pay 15%"

"Obamacare is a heat-seeking missile that will destroy jobs & small businesses; it will explode health-care costs; and it will lead to health care that is far less innovative than it is today. Every argument that you'd make against socialism you can make against socialized health care, and any candidate who isn't 100% committed to scrapping Obamacare is not someone America should elect president. Repealing Obamacare may be one of the most important and consequential actions our next president takes." He told the audience at CPAC, “I am pro-life” and pledged to fight for the reversal of Obamacare, which contains abortion funding loopholes."

"We definitely must find funding for defense, which means somebody is going to come up with less money for their own project. I think the best place to start is by diverting money from the planned missile defense system. I know this sounds almost counter intuitive because a missile defense system is supposed to help us defend against attack by rogue states." July 2, 2000

"Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform: 1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border. 2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced. 3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans."

“You don’t have to have voter ID to now go in and vote and it’s a little bit scary.” Trump says without voter ID, “people are going to walk in, they are going to vote 10 times maybe. Who knows?”

“When I become president, the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one,” he said, to applause. “I will meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately. I have known him for many years and we’ll be able to work closely together to help bring stability and peace to Israel and to the entire region.” American tycoon Donald Trump criticized the White House's treatment of Israel, saying, “There has never been a greater enemy to Israel than Barack Obama.” read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.624269

Early in his campaign he Trump) vowed to use the power of the pen to give all cop killers the death penalty. More recently, in his response to the shooting death of 49 people inside an Orlando gay club this month, he pledged to use executive power to implement one of his signature proposals: A temporary ban on Muslim immigration (even though the shooter was born in New York). “The immigration laws of the United States give the president powers to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons,” Trump said June 16, two days after the shooting. “I will use this power to protect the American people.”

Trump asserts that an "overwhelming majority of people who go through background checks are law-abiding gun owners" and that too many states fail to properly put criminal and mental-health records into the database system. "What we need to do is fix the system we have and make it work as intended. What we don’t need to do is expand a broken system," Trump says on his campaign website. “The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear,” he writes in the summary, released Friday on his website. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.” (2015)

"I'm for traditional marriage." says Trump on CNN. Trump... was asked if he supports "allowing same-sex couples to marry." Trump said "no," but didn't stop there. When asked whether gay couples should have access to "the same benefits as married couples," (he) initially replied that his attitude on the issue was not yet "fully formed." After thinking about it for a moment, however, Trump said, "As of this moment, I would say no and no to gay marriage and civil benefits."

Trump said he would sign the FADA bill if it passed Congress.

“I’m not cutting services, but I’m cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education,” Trump says. “I believe Common Core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be — you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.”

"Our public schools are capable of providing a more competitive product than they do today. Look at some of the high school tests from earlier in this century and you’ll wonder if they weren’t college-level tests. And we’ve got to bring on the competition -open the schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for their children. Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition-the American way."

In 2011, Trump said, “I am pro-life” and pledged to fight for the reversal of Obamacare, which contains abortion funding loopholes. Donald Trump said April 2016 he would change the Republican Party platform's position on abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.

June 2016:Donald Trump delivered a message to evangelicals that if he wins the White House in November, he will fiercely defend religious freedom. August 2015: “There’s an assault on anything having to do with Christianity,” Trump said. “They don’t want to use the word Christmas anymore at department stores.” “There’s always lawsuits and unfortunately a lot of those lawsuits are won by the other side,” Trump said. “I will assault that. I will go so strongly against so many of the things, when they take away the word Christmas.” “I go out of my way to use the word Christmas.”

“I do not want to say that because I want to show unpredictability. You have to. You can’t just go around and say that. But Planned Parenthood should absolutely be defunded. I mean if you look at what’s going on with that, it’s terrible. And many of the things should be defunded and many things should be cut.”; "I would look at the individual things that they do and maybe some of the things are good," Trump said. "We have to take care of women. We have to absolutely take care of women. The abortion aspect of Planned Parenthood should not — absolutely should not — be funded."

At 2015 CPAC, Donald Trump says he opposes marijuana legalization.

Mr. Trump writes, “The natural gas reserves we have in the United States could power America’s energy needs for the next 110 years,” and there is enough crude oil to last for decades. He supports a dramatic escalation of domestic drilling to provide jobs and minimize dependency on foreign cartels. ; "Fracking will lead to American energy independence. With price of natural gas continuing to drop, we can be at a tremendous advantage."

“First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, is where I went to church,” he told Christian Broadcasting Network in 2012. “I’m a Protestant, I’m a Presbyterian. And you know I’ve had a good relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion.” He goes to church “when I can.” “Always on Christmas. Always on Easter. Always when there’s a major occasion,” Trump said in 2012. Then he added: “I’m a Sunday church person.” In 2015 Trump said in response to Anderson Cooper trying to get clarification on Trump's stand on asking for forgiveness, "Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?" asked Trump. "I work hard, I'm an honorable person," In the same interview, he also said, "I go to communion and that's asking forgiveness, you know, it's a form of asking forgiveness." He then stressed that he "likes to work where he doesn't have to ask forgiveness."