There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

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...

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

To change what you get, you must change who you are.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.