If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.
All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.
I've got Aussie country pride for sure. I just like where I grew up. I think you've got lots in common with the people who grew up the same as you.
Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian
Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.
Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.
You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.
