My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.