"Look, I expect to be sued. I shouldn't be sued. Very rarely do you get sued when you do national emergency."
When you do national emergency, you don't get sued usually. Everybody knows this about national emergency.
Of course, past the presidents declared a national emergency when there was actual national emergency.
"I'm also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has." —November 3, 2016
"[Vladimir Putin] is not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down."
—apparently unaware that Russia had already annexed Crimea in a 2014 intrusion into Ukraine that left thousands dead, July 31, 2016
"There has to be some form of punishment…you go back to a position like they had where they would perhaps go to illegal places, but we have to ban it."
—on women who have abortions, MSNBC interview, March 30, 2016
"My entire life, I've watched politicians bragging about how poor they are, how they came from nothing, how poor their parents and grandparents were. And I said to myself, if they can stay so poor for so many generations, maybe this isn't the kind of person we want to be electing to higher office. How smart can they be? They're morons."
—New York Times interview with Maureen Dowd, Nov. 28, 1999
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