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Quotes About Community

If all you have is coal, that's the only thing that we have. Don't hate the coal miner for trying to get the only decent job that we have in West Virginia that can allow them to feed their family.
~ Richard Ojeda
But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.
~ Paula Jean Swearengin
Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.
~ Jim Justice
The last thing we need to do is drive more people out of West Virginia.
~ Jim Justice
If President Trump and his administration succeed, West Virginia will succeed.
~ Jim Justice
I didn't run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.
~ Jim Justice
There are so many great things happening in West Virginia, and I will continue to work every day to move our state forward.
~ Jim Justice
When President Kennedy come to West Virginia, he spoke about West Virginia and the people that gave the people here pride. And my family, my father remembers when President Kennedy was in Logan County and at places like the smokehouse, standing on chairs, talking to people.
~ Richard Ojeda
The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.
~ 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.
~ Richard Ojeda
I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.
~ Paula Jean Swearengin
We simply must stand with the Boy Scouts and give them the support they need to make a difference in communities across West Virginia.
~ Jim Justice
If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.
~ Jim Justice
All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I'll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.
~ Jim Justice
Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
~ Russell Means
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
~ Rick Larsen
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
~ Cate Blanchett
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
~ Natan Sharansky
The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
~ Azim Premji
What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.
~ Darin Strauss
All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.
~ Al Stewart
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
~ Rob Walton
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.
~ Margaret Smith Court
For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner gave me a privileged perch, and my ability to earn money by writing for western publications made me almost impervious to discrimination. Other Russians were not in a hurry to come out.
~ Masha Gessen