I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

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...

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.