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.

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.

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

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

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

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

[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.