West Virginia Quotes

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

Trouble, Police, Yesterday

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
Joe Manchin

Business, Live, Treat

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
Brad Paisley

Deep, Down, West

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
Jeff Goodell

May, America, Big

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.
Jennifer Garner

Mean, Universe, Felt

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

Best, Same, Whole

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

Work, Morning, West

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.
Joe Manchin

Wife, Paid, Taxes

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
David Selby

Family, Travel, Past

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
Randy Moss

Country, Big, Redneck

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
Jessica Lynch

Community, Jobs, Palestine

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
Sam Trammell

Beautiful, Through, Old

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
Sam Trammell

Teen, Different, Two

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
William L. Jenkins

Together, Since, Community

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
James Green Somerville

Money, Father, Working

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.
James Green Somerville

Great, Depression, Different

I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
Ted Strickland

Life, Health, God

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
John Knowles

Education, Business, Dad

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
Joe Manchin III

Great, Business, Goal

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.
Joe Manchin III

Good, Cannot, Wait

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.
Joe Manchin III

Fight, Job, Reality

There's a war on coal coming from this administration, and Congress seems to be going with it. Coal is West Virginia. It's the backbone of our budgets. To have this war on coal is destructive to our ability to maintain economic viability in the state.
David McKinley

War, State, Congress

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