In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

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

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

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst — and that brings the whole country down.

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

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 cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.