If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

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...

Where are you taking me?” Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

Somewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us

Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.