Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.