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.

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.

The banks run the place.

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

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.

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

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