Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

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...

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

My administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.