Tonight proves that you can't tell an American that there's something they just can't do, because Americans can do whatever they set their hearts on.

Romney is a former business executive, something of an expert in turnarounds and voters there hope that he can turn around their economy if he were to become president.

And tonight is a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism.

I have got Michigan in my DNA. I have got it in my heart and I have got cars in my bloodstream.

if -- even if he comes in second in -- in -- in Michigan, if he wins among Republican voters, that -- he is going to take that as a victory.

I will not rest until Michigan has come back.

Let's get the record straight: could we be headed for a recession? Absolutely. Do we have to be headed for a recession? Absolutely not.

Let's get the record straight -- could we be headed for a recession? Absolutely. Do we have to be headed for a recession? Absolutely not.

That we secure the border, we have the fence and we have enough border patrol agents to secure the border. And that we have an employment verification system of some kind. But the place of difference between us is what we do with the 12…

I know that there's some people who think as Senator McCain did. He said, you know, some jobs that left Michigan that are never coming back. I disagree. I'm going to fight for every single job. Michigan, South Carolina, every state in this…

It's do or die for him.

I think you have to have somebody from outside Washington who has proven that he can get the job done.

And I'm going to use all those years of experience and my love for this state to go to work for Michigan to end the one-state recession and make sure that Michigan has a bright and promising future.

There's no way that our party would be successful in the fall if we put forward a long-serving senator to stand up against Barack Obama's message of change.

Well, people across the country are saying that Washington is fundamentally broken and has to be changed.

He's a Senator killer.

My campaign has been about change from the very beginning.

I just don't think there's any way Washington is going to be changed if we just send back the same people, just give them different chairs.