Quotes from Jim Justice

Our teachers are good people and they work hard, but we are losing them to other states due to low pay.

Being Governor is a full-time responsibility.

Donald J. Trump is a personal friend of mine and I know how much he cares for each and every one of us in this great nation.

My dad was a great athlete. He started golf at a late age. He started me off real young and all of a sudden both of us got to where we were pretty good players. I was this 12-year-old thinking he was going to be the next Tiger Woods and all of a sudden, before you know it, I'm playing in the State Amateur.

Now, let me say this about education. I've said it till I'm blue-green. Not everybody is cut out for the traditional pathway of a four-year degree.

I want nothing for myself from being Governor. I don't take a salary or PEIA, I don't need business connections or the next hot tip. I drive myself everywhere I go, without taking a dime from the state.

We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.

I want to find a niche crop that we can market to the world. Why can't we have the Almost Heaven Tomato? It can be the next Vidalia Onion or Idaho potato.

President Trump is continuing to keep his promise to Americans to help grow our country by providing our average families with significant tax relief.

Tourism is so important to our state.

If you're a student that likes to, you know - that wants to go into the trades and have an incredible job, and you're a student that loves the electricity or whatever it may be, in all honesty, a lot of times when you walk the halls people may - other kids may look down on you a little bit. It's not fair. It's not right.

I want us to develop a way to where kids in high school and the trades can get an associate degree while they're in high school.

Slashing budgets for our K-12 schools, our higher education institutions and our neediest residents simply isn't the answer.

All it is going to take to shut the power grid down to the entire Eastern half of the country is a bomb being placed at a key natural gas pipeline or on a major highway artery to the West.

My father was a pilot in WWII and I have nothing but the utmost respect for anyone who answers the call to serve our country.

I have been a business guy all my life, and I know that when you have a real problem, you can't cut your way out of the problem. Too often we try to skinny everything down and not fund it properly.

If we don't invest in education we'll continue to be dead last.

I know about trees. I know about how they eat all the carbon.

By simplifying and streamlining the tax filing process it lifts a huge burden off of the middle class.

We need to do everything we can to expand last mile projects that are so critical to linking families and businesses directly to broadband.

We are committed to making construction zones as safe as we possibly can for motorists and those working on the job.

Keeping our Eastern coalfields and our miners working is critical to national security.

The last thing I want is a conflict of interest between my family's businesses and state government. Even the slightest whiff of a conflict won't fly with me.

Our children are our future and we must continue to nurture them and provide the best possible environment for them to grow and learn.