[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

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.

Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work hard on it.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

One good friend is better than a thousand questionable ones.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Are we just dreamingIn the city that never sleeps?Cause I can't be seeingWhat my eyes tell me.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.