To have people believe in you and to believe that you can bring people together and strengthen our country, I have to thank the people from the great state of Ohio. I love you. Is it all right? I love you. And I want to remind you, again, tonight, that I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land.

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

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

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.