[People] think [the government is] coddling people, like when people's feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to make them feel better. Stuff like that drives [voters here] crazy.

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

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.

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.