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 have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.

Do you think that I like to have to fight the leaders in my own party over this or that? Of course not. There's no joy in that. But John Kennedy may have said it best - sometimes my party asks too much.

I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

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

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.