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

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's "free stuff," too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the "free stuff" that the government provides other people.

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?

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

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.