The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

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 heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases, which is a legitimate issue.

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

If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.