When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

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...

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.

I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

More rationale decreases subjectivity.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.