If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

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...

You can't change reality -- only its perception.

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.