Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

It's blue collar, hard-working people. It's good people.

I'm a blue collar guy.

Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It's time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival.