I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

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...

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.