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. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
If I’m stone-cold crazy because I have a hard time going to sleep at night because we have kids that go to bed hungry, then I’ll be stone-cold crazy, and I’m OK with that. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
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. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
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. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
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. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
The coal miners are working. But there’s more than just coal miners in West Virginia. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
I was raised here in Logan County, where I was blessed to be in a family that had over 200 years of United Mine Workers of America experience. Richard Ojeda Read Quote
