I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.

The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.