Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.
Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.
I'm a compassionate conservative.
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.
I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.