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

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.

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

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.