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I was impressed (by) the force of his convictions and by what he said. I don’t share his opinion on many topics, but I thought he was well-prepared and knew who he was talking to,
said Benedict Fontanet, a Swiss lawyerIt’s absolute determination to ‘make America great again’ at the expense of the rest of the world,
said Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty InternationalWe are protecting them. They're not protecting us,
he said according to a White House press corps pool reportWe have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficits with the EU, and nobody's happy about it and we are going to do something about it,
he saidThat's not from the standpoint of economy or anything else,
he saidIt's from the standpoint of millions of lives (that) are being wasted ... Beautiful young people are being shot in the battlefield,
he saidIn fact, with President Putin prior to an election result (in 2020), we were talking about denuclearization of our two countries and China would have come along,
he saidI am also going to ask all NATO nations to increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, which is what it should have been years ago,
he saidWe've been having massive deficits with China. Biden allowed it to get out of hand ... $1.1 trillion deficits, ridiculous, and it's just an unfair relationship. We have to make if fair,
he saidI can tell you that President Putin wanted to do it. He and I wanted to do it,
he saidI think the rest of the world ... we would have gotten them to follow, and China would have come along too. China also liked it,
he saidI'll demand that interest rates drop immediately. And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world,
Trump said via video conference on Thursday (Jan 23).We don't want to take advantage,
he said of Washington-Beijing relationsAmerica is back and open for business,
Trump, in a video linkup from Washington, told corporate leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, SwitzerlandI think his economic policies are insane. There are reasons why we don’t have super-high tariffs,
said James Angel, a professor at Georgetown McDonough’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and PolicyYou've done a fantastic job but I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank,
Trump said during his virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in SwitzerlandThe United States has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth. And we’re going to use it,
Trump said, promising “rapid approvals” for energy venturesWe’re going to be demanding respect from other nations,
Trump said at Davos, immediately pivoting to CanadaAs you probably know, I say: ‘You can always become a state. And then, if you are a state, we won’t have a deficit. We won’t have to tariff you,'
Trump saidWe’d like to see denuclearisation,
Trump said, citing conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first term