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Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

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.

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

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.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

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

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.

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.

As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.