Quotes from Richard Ojeda

The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

We must look for leaders who have exhibited a lifetime of service to their communities and have proven that their intention is to help people.

I come from the coal fields.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

I will stand with unions wholeheartedly, and that's the problem - the Democratic Party wants to say that, but their actions do not mirror that.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

People are tired of the same ol' garbage. They want people that are willing to speak out, speak up, be open and honest with them.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

My state was blue through and through. The reason why my state went red is because my state is a hard labor state, and the Democratic party pulled pitch and ran away from this place and left our people to fend for themselves with nothing.

The reason why the Democratic Party fell from grace is because they become nothing more than elitist. That was it. Goldman Sachs - that's who they were.

If you have a great idea, I'll support your great idea. But if you don't have a great idea, I won't.

The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.

Put me in a room with 50 people, and I guarantee you 48 them are going to walk out saying, 'Ojeda's my guy.'

I was raised here in Logan County, where I was blessed to be in a family that had over 200 years of United Mine Workers of America experience.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

I am a Democrat because I believe in what the Democratic Party is supposed to be: taking care of our working-class citizens.

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

I believe that if we are going to create jobs in this country, then let's create jobs that will absolutely put the working-class people at work to the point where they have one job. They don't have to work three because they have to work Wendy's, McDonald's, and Walmart to survive.

We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that looks out for the working-class citizens.