The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

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...

I choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from "Splittings

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

Southern DADDY—Dandy At Doin’ Diapers Y’all!

A great politician has great charisma.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

The art of love is God at work through you.