[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

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

It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.

I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

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

You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given the position [the Democratic Party] has taken, it's very hard to see how you can do that.

[People] think [the government is] coddling people, like when people's feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to make them feel better. Stuff like that drives [voters here] crazy.