I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

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...

Our lives begin to end when we begin to forget to love.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

It's not an act, it's just my way.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Without goals, training has no direction.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.