“We stand strong together – as Americans – many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.”

Everything depends on a good job – strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives – family, friends, faith and freedom.

Ohioans are practical. We’re a can-do people. Give us a problem, we’ll give you a solution.

We live in a land like no other – a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.

There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.