When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

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.

Every day, we ought to extend kindness to one other.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.