Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].

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...

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.