It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.

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.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

If we pray we shall put an end to evil intentions.

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.