I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases, which is a legitimate issue.

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.

You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn.

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.