In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

What worries me most about Trump, other than all of the other crazy things, is that I believe that he wants power and I believe from my point of view that power corrupts, and that the whole purpose of our founding fathers and America was to contain power.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.