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

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

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

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

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.

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.