Quotes About West Virginia

West Virginia built this nation... we deserve respect.

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.

If you look at Middle America and the reason why it's so red is because the Democratic Party cannot relate to them. They definitely have not done anything to support people from where I come from in West Virginia.

In Iraq, I listened to David Petraeus speak every day about how we had to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure and protect it. But, if we're going to go trillions of dollars in debt over Iraq, why can't we go billions of dollars in debt and make every single coal-producing plant clean in West Virginia?

But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia or Kentucky - all states that his boss won twice - then he'd have won the election anyway.

I have always said that West Virginia is one of the world's best-kept secrets, and I truly mean it.

I'm working as hard as I can for West Virginia and its people to continue to provide the coal that keeps the lights on in our country.

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.

I didn't run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.

One of the main goals of the Roads to Prosperity program is to bring jobs to West Virginia and spark economic growth.

We need to develop multiple lakes within West Virginia, multiple lakes that can give us hydroelectric power - which maybe we don't need, but at the same time, they can give us flood control.

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.

The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.

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

When candidate Donald Trump ran for the highest office in the land, he promised to fight for forgotten Americans. In the presidential election of 2016, the forgotten Americans of the Upper Midwest and the coal country of Kentucky and West Virginia, many of them life-long Democrats, delivered a decisive win for this first-time Republican candidate.

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.

If Pitt is on the short list, there's no reason that West Virginia shouldn't be on the Big 12 short list.

President Biden has made an exceptional choice in nominating Gayle Manchin for Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. A longtime educator and West Virginia native, she understands the critical issues facing our Appalachian communities and is well-qualified to serve in this role.

I'd like to welcome everyone, everywhere to come to West Virginia and experience all the freedom and beauty our state has to offer.

If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at the bottom.

We simply must stand with the Boy Scouts and give them the support they need to make a difference in communities across West Virginia.