What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be f….

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle..

I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they w….

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit.….

I learned that you can go after things before you are ready and so if you are going after it, you need to make sure that your spirit is ready. I lear….

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White..

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender t….

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was ….

I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't m….

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any partic….

I don't think there has been any mayor in America scrutinized that way. I don't think there has been any mayor as a matter of fact, Coleman Young I t….

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its he….

I've been mayor so I believe there is something else for me. I don't know what that is yet, but I definitely have a testimony now brother! As far as ….

We do need brothers and sisters to go into elected offices and political offices and do that, but my spirit is telling me something different. Becaus….

There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing ….

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island..

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears..

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term..

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years..

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be….

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a ….