I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Ohio does have an energy industry, but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country. We came back from the dead.

I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned how people make jobs.

I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin.

I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.