I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

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...

Maybe it's a green thing or a wolf thing or a short-circuit thing. I don’t seem to know anything.

Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1, 2, 3 Why it can't be you and me..?

The moment of change is the only poem.

Reason with most people means their own opinions.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

David Boreanaz is pretty funny. He's probably the one that cracks everybody up the most on set. He can be very serious as well, but when he's silly he's pretty silly.

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.