A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

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

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.

Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.

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.

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.