That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

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...

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!

It's so tempting to resist a little gift when you're expecting the otherwise.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.