<p><b>&apos;Part of the beauty of me is that I&apos;m very rich&apos;</b><br /><br />But that&apos;s just part of it. His fingers, too, are &apos;long and beautiful&apos;. Improbably coiffed, perma-tanned and bronze-tongued, the Donald has increasingly impinged on the world&apos;s consciousness through a string of startling pronouncements.<br /><br />From his preference for war heroes who have <i>not</i> been captured, to his references to his sleeping around in the 1980s as his &apos;personal Vietnam&apos; or this - &apos;My grandparents didn&apos;t come to America all the way from Germany to see it get taken over by immigrants&apos; - Trump&apos;s utterances are nothing if not intriguing. <br /><br />As he once said, and to date this has been hard to dispute, he &apos;could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and [he] wouldn&apos;t lose any voters.&apos;<br /><br />Here, in his own words, is the businessmen, the dealmaker, TV personality, author and one-time Democrat, now Republican who would be president of the United States.</p>