Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

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

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.

The banks run the place.

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