I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

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...

Reading & Thinking Breeds limitless progress.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Arrogance can be deadly.

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.