Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

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 visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

I don't back down. I never win, but I don't back down

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.