We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

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...

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

The world is my lobster.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.