“If we do what we have to do correctly, we can create the biggest economic boom in this country since the New Deal when our vast infrastructure was first put into place. It's a no-brainer. It's so obvious that even the Democrats can figure it out.”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“I was speaking to thousands of people in New Hampshire when a nice young man asked me what I thought about the project being planned to send humans to Mars. "I think it's wonderful," I told him. "But I want to rebuild our infrastructure first on Earth, okay?" I mean, I don't understand how we can pu…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“We're spending billions of dollars protecting countries that should be paying us to do the job yet we can't build roads in our own cities. We can't build schools in our own communities. I've been to China numerous times, and everywhere you look there are cranes reaching toward the sky. The Chinese b…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“Our infrastructure is terrible, and it's only getting worse and more expensive to fix. It's already costing the American people an estimated $200 billion a year in reduced productivity. That number is increasing annually. Instead of being at the office or in the factory getting work done, Americans…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“Our airports, bridges, water tunnels, power grids, rail systems—our nation's entire infrastructure—is crumbling, and we aren't doing anything about it. Former secretary of transportation Ray LaHood knows all about this and got it right when he said, "If we are going to have safe transportation syste…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“There are some things so obvious that even Joe Biden can see them.”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“As study after study has proven, few criminals are stupid enough to try to pass a background check or have their names in any kind of system. So they get their guns the same way bad guys have always gotten their guns—by stealing them or by buying them from an unlicensed source or getting from from f…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“Opponents of gun rights often use a lot of scary descriptive phrases when proposing legislative action against various types of weapons. Ban "assault weapons" they say, or "military-style weapons," or "high-capacity magazines." Those all do sound a little ominous, until you understand what they are…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“...you are the citizens the antigun movement and the media blame when a deranged madman uses a gun to commit a horrific act. When one of these tragedies occurs, you can e sure two things are going to follow. First, opponents of gun rights will immediately exploit the situation to push their antigun…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“We have to be alert and report suspicious strangers or packages. We have to create community boards that can work in tandem, not in "gotcha" mode," when dealing with local authorities. As relatives and friends, we have to be vigilant when someone close to us is suddenly showing deep signs of depress…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“Violent crime in our inner cities is out of control. Murder rates are way up. There are far too many hardened drug dealers and gang members who are repeatedly involved in burglaries and drive-by killings. We need to get them off the streets so that they don’t continue to terrorize their neighborhood…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“Every state has its own driving test that residents have to pass before becoming licensed to drive. Those tests are different in many states, but once a state licenses you to drive, every other state recognizes that license as valid. If we can do that for driving— which is a privilege, not a right—…”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again