You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

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 art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

Don't ever leave me again." -Max I won't. I won't not ever." -Fang

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.