Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

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.

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

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

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

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

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?