I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

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...

Don't waste Money, Time or Mental Energy.

Man, you should write a book.’‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

Things work out better when you're straight up.

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.