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

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.

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.

When you are in love, you always want to be with your lover.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.