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.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

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

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.