[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues]; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to [Donald] Trump.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

The banks run the place.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

I still sing. I still lead worship. I mean, it's - who I am, it's what God has given me to do.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.