West virginia Quote by Ben Montgomery

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

— Joe Manchin

“That’s what’s called a ‘valley fill.’ What they fill it with the coal companies call ‘overburden.’ That’s basically everything they tore off the land:…

— David Baldacci

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society…

— Paul Driessen

“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of…

— Jack Weatherford

I've been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.

— Will Grier

“Our 182-passenger Boeing Classic this morning is under the able command of Captain Hiram Slatt, discharged from service in the United States Air Force…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

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…

— Steve Kornacki

“Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed "Oiltown." This was the site of the…

— Clint Johnson

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in…

— John Kruk

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as…

— Joe Manchin

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant…

— John Knowles