If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

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...

Do only the greatest good, for the greatest number of people. They will do the rest.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

But no one can ever say I didn’t sing.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.