Gary Peters

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.

People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.