I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.

Ohio does have an energy industry, but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country. We came back from the dead.

I'm a registered conservative.

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views.

We have seen many instances where the free world didn't seem to understand the nature of evil or the battle against evil in their time. We've watched Nazism and fascism and imperial Japan and communism and totalitarianism, and now it seems to be we're all battling against terrorism.