Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

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...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

...I've never really had a party before.""Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking.He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.