I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

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...

The quality of your communication shapes the quality of your life. Every cell in your being aligns with what you declare.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.