As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

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.

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

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...

Creativity isn’t necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a “connect-the-dots” adventure.

If we repent, the Lord will forgive us.

My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me...

In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.