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More Missourians are working than ever before.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.