Michigan Quotes

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.