A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf?

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.