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.

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

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.

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

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.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

You know, I don't want to stand out too much.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'