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“I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, 'I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.' And sadly, that's apparently a victory here in a place like southern 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?”
“Families in Logan, West Virginia, were going through the same struggles as families in the Bronx, San Francisco, and Houston. This was not a West Virginia problem. This is an American problem, and it has to change.”
“I ran in the reddest state of the United States of America. I turned almost 35 percent of the people that voted for Donald Trump back to voting for a Democrat.”
“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.”
“There's a purpose for me. And my purpose is to wake people up.”
“If you have a great idea, I'll support your great idea. But if you don't have a great idea, I won't.”
“I'm not scared of the president of the United States. And I'm not scared to stand up against the president of the United States.”
“Back when I was in high school, being a Republican was like cursing. Republicans were greedy people who didn't take care of the workingman.”
“My military service has been attacked by people who have never picked up a rifle and manned a post.”
“I'm real. I'm not polished.”
“The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.”
“I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.”
“Just because I support somebody doesn't necessarily mean I'll agree with them always. If they do not do something that's correct, I have the right to make comment.”
“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.”
“The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.”
“I lived in a bubble: my whole entire military career where I thought that everything was perfect. And I thought that every time we went overseas and we fought for this country, we were doing it because we were trying to get other people a sliver of the greatness that we have here in the United States of America.”
“We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.”
“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.”
“If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.”