I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I just don't think that's the direction we should be going in our country. The 1 percent's doing very well in America. They don't need more help. But Medicaid does.

I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

I know this, that there were thousands and thousands of hours given to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server and Benghazi. It seems to me we need bipartisanship now to look at exactly what happened in this election and exactly the things that people like James Comey did and put it in context to make sure we have all the facts, because I don't think anyone is comfortable with how this election played out.

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.