With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

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

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

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?

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

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