American Quotes

I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America , was being downgraded.

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

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits b

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.'

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

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

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.