I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up.

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...

To write is human, to edit is divine.

A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.

Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.

I loved the college experience of studying.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.