We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

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

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

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.