Michigan Quotes

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

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan.

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

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

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

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.

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

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

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

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

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

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

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.