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

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

Somebody tells me no, they're not going to keep telling me no, because I'm going to bother them to the point where it's a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I'm the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a state that was on the brink of dying. And we turned it all around with jobs and balanced budgets and rising credit and tax cuts, and the state is unified, and people have hope again in Ohio.

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 people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal. And that includes people in our minority community; that includes people who feel as though they don't have a chance to move up.