There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

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

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.