This feels good being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height.

If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.

When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.