When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.

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

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?

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.