Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists - but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those comparisons. ... Working-class people are hurting - and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job - it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.

Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.

America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.