West Virginia Quotes - Page 2

• So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Winning, Virginia, People

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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

  Joe Manchin

  Morning, Virginia, People

  "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2010.

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• 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

  Virginia, Wife, Income

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• 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

  Moving, Virginia, People

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• From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

  Billy Joel

  Kids, Gun, Boys

  Song: The Ballad Of Billy The Kid, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• 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

  Jobs, Virginia, Ohio

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• I am a former Kleagie of the Klu Klux Klan in Raleigh County and adjoining counties of the state, having been appainted to this office [by] Mr. J. L. Baskin of Arlington, Virginia, in 1942... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.

  Robert Byrd

  Virginia, Order, Ku Klux Klan

  "McGovern Would Oppose Byrd; Rules Out ‘a Racist’ for Court" by Fred P. Graham, www.nytimes.com. October 12, 1971.

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• 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

  Sports, Country, Redneck

  "Randy Moss loving the NASCAR life". Interview with Ryan McGee, www.espn.com. April 1, 2011.

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• 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

  Virginia, Priorities, President

  "YIKES: A Democratic Senator Says He Might Not Vote For Obama" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Virginia, Goal, Campaigns

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

  Brad Paisley

  Virginia, West, Hillbilly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Blow, Men, Virginia

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• Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together.” “No,” I said. “No?” “We’re, uh, not in West Virginia.

  Richelle Mead

  Virginia, Alchemist, Together

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.196, Penguin

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• I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

  Edward Abbey

  New York, Heart, Virginia

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Fall, Home, Men

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• Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Virginia, New Orleans

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1156, Penguin

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• 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

  Jobs, Fighting, Reality

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• That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe darkly, "is an excellent question." "Because they were apparently kidnapping Jill Mastrano in Detroit," said Christian. "Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Thinking, Virginia

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.235, Penguin

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• Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Sorry, Virginia, Gas Stations

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

  Jessica Lynch

  Jobs, Virginia, Community

  "I'm Jessica Lynch and Here's My Real Story" by Abigail Pesta, www.glamour.com. June 3, 2007.

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

  Christopher Dodd

  War, Thinking, Virginia

  "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• 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

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

  Richard Florida

  New York, Alaska, Kentucky

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.

  James A. Haught

  Hate, Editors, Virginia

  James A. Haught (1995). “Holy Hatred: Religious Conflicts of the '90s”

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