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….

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have..

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career..

The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would hav….

A friend asked one of my daughters, "Do you like politics?" And my daughter said, "No, I don't. And the reason I don't like it is because there's too….

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..

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade..

I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of ….

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it....

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided..

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important..

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..

There were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that w….

Guess what? I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay..

We've got to listen to other people's voices, respect them, but keep in mind, and I believe in terms of the things that I've read in my lifetime, the….

With all those fledgling countries in Asia, who really want to stand with us but they live under the shadow of China and the smaller shadow of Russia….

I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not ….

Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in so many ways to rebuild ….

You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for progress, to improv….

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously….