Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

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...

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

For every dark night, there is a brighter day.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.