Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the….

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there..

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats..

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope..

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'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 ….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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....