Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.

My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.