Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

Im a believer in bipartisanship.

Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.

Let me tell you what is interesting about the administration. We had Central American miners that were placed in Ohio, and we never knew a thing about it. We didn't know where they were. And, in fact, we know now that some of them, there is a case going on where some of them may have been human-trafficked.