What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save the economy. And that's certainly true in rural areas. The unemployment rate is substantially reduced, the poverty rate is down, and in large part because of the investments that were made during the Recovery Act and thereafter, historic investments.