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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to our Donald Trump quote tracker.
We'll be monitoring the motormouth Republican's campaign speeches, interviews and utterances to bring you all his choicest words.
Be sure to keep checking back here for the latest updates.
25 September
Another quiet day for the man who is probably the most bombastic candidate in election history. Presumably it's another day preparing for Monday's debate.
Anyway, there was still enough time to meet the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. No quotes but a readout of the meeting. Very presidential.
Finally, Mr. Trump acknowledged that Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish People for over 3000 years, and that the United States, under a Trump administration, will finally accept the long-standing Congressional mandate to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel.
No need to start panicking. Barack Obama made the same promise in 2008 but US policy remains to fudge the issue so as to keep alive what remains of the two-state solution.
24 September
He's been on the straight and narrow for a few days as we get to the business end of this campaign. Maybe someone took his Android phone away. Whatever. His public comments have been relatively measured.
Until today that is, when he appears to have had his cage rattled by Mark Cuban and the Clinton campaign. Following a string of public put-downs by Mr Cuban, a businessman and investor, the Clinton campaign offered him a ringside seat at Monday's debate.
If it's an attempt to get under Mr Trump's skin it appears to have worked.
23 September
A rare day off for the Donald with no campaign appearances. Is he finally preparing for the first presidential debate?
His campaign was bolstered by Ted Cruz's announcement that he would was endorsing Mr Trump.
The Republican candidate responded with a statement: "I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator Cruz. We have fought the battle and he was a tough and brilliant opponent. I look forward to working with him for many years to come in order to make America great again."
Rather difference to what he said just a few short weeks ago after the Texas senator snubbed him at the Republican National Convention: "I don’t want his endorsement. If he gives it, I will not accept it, just so you understand. I will not accept it. It won’t matter. Honestly, he should have done it. Because nobody cares."
22 September
The New York billionaire endorsed a policing method that a federal judge said New York City had used unconstitutionally because of its overwhelming impact on minority residents.
“I think Chicago needs stop and frisk,” he said during a phone interview with Fox News. “When you have 3,000 people shot and so many people dying, I mean it's worse than some of the places we're hearing about like Afghanistan, you know, the war-torn nations.”
21 September
Mr Trump addressed the shooting of an unarmed black man in Oklahoma by a white police officer during a visit to Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
It was part of his effort to win the support of black voters and he began by expressing his horror at the killing, before going on to explain his admiration for the police.
“Great people, you always have problems," he said. "You have somebody in there that either makes a mistake, that's bad or that chokes.”
He then accused the officer, Betty Shelby, of choking.
“Now did she get scared? Was she choking? What happened?” he asked.
20 September
Mr Trump was on the campaign trail addressing the concerns of black voters in North Carolina on Tuesday night.
His outreach has not been an overwhelming success.
And the latest attempt will not have helped.
“You take a look at the inner cities. You get no education, you get no jobs, you get shot walking down the street!' he said.
“They're worse – I mean honestly, places like Afghanistan are safer than some of our inner cities.”
The result was a mix of bafflement and anger at the comparison with a country riven by war and riddled with Taliban insurgents who have seized territory in the past two years since American combat troops left the country.
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