California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

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

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

Today in America we are no more "post-racial" than we are "post-partisan." We have a long way to go.