Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change.

I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.

It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.