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

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

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

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

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

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

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

Never forget to value yourself

One more thing...

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does!

The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Illegal immigration is going to stop. It's dangerous.

We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.