The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.
Richard Ojeda
We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.
Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.
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.
When I retired from the military, I come home. And the reason why I got into politics is, you know, I spent a lot of time away from my wife and my kids. And I come home, and I found out I have kids in my backyard that have it worse than the children I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.
The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.
I'm a combat soldier.
The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.
I stand with the working-class citizens.
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.
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.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who fight and die.
When I hear Ivanka Trump saying how she looks forward to working side by side with Gen. Kelly - a guy who's got 40 years' worth of experience leading troops all across the world - and she makes handbags, come on.
Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!
I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.
If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.
I will not take corporate money. I don't want it.
Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.
I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.
The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.
I'm saying right now that if you're going to serve this nation in a federal position, you need to start proving that you're willing to sacrifice first. I'm saying... that people are sick and tired of the millionaires running the system.
That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.
I am a Democrat because I believe in what the Democratic Party is supposed to be: taking care of our working-class citizens.
People are tired of the same ol' garbage. They want people that are willing to speak out, speak up, be open and honest with them.
I'm real. I'm not polished.
My military service has been attacked by people who have never picked up a rifle and manned a post.
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.
If you believe in something, be willing to explain it.
We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.
We must look for leaders who have exhibited a lifetime of service to their communities and have proven that their intention is to help people.
All Americans deserve to see, speak to, and hear from our candidates. No county is insignificant, no community too small, and each person's vote is important.
I'm challenging the powers that be.
West Virginia built this nation... we deserve respect.
It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.
I don't think I'm special.
I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.
Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.
I've got Republican people from all over that have contacted and said, 'Look, we're going to support you,' because I say what needs to be said.
Patrick Morrisey means nothing to me. He is a bootlicker. If shoe polish was poison, he'd be dead.
I'd rather fight than eat.
You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'
We have to stop letting people come in here and make millionaires and billionaires of themselves off of West Virginia while West Virginia remains poor.
The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that looks out for the working-class citizens.
We got to fight to protect Social Security.
We need to take care of our veterans. If I'm going to send you away and break you, I'm going to fix you when you come home.
I spent 24 years in the United States Army.
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.
I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.
Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.
