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

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

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.

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 banks run the place.

The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.