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I'm a Midwesterner.

I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives.

It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

I go back to a very specific aspect of the Midwest - small towns surrounded by farmland. They make a good stage for what I like to write about, i.e., roads and houses, bridges and rivers and weather and woods, and people to whom strange or interesting things happen, causing problems they must overcome.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.