I'm proud to be a Michigander, but I look around at the Michigan that my kids are growing up in and it doesn't look like the Michigan that I think of when I talk about my pride.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

There have been too few women in leadership because they haven't had the opportunities.

At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

There's a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill - doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies - to figure out the best plan.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.