Top 45 Richard Ojeda Quotes

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

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.

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.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

West Virginia built this nation… we deserve respect.

There’s a purpose for me. And my purpose is to wake people up.

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.

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.

I will strengthen our unions and our middle-class families so that no longer will they be pushed around by employers but will finally have a seat at the table.

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.

I don’t think I’m special.

I’m nothing but a ball of energy.

The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

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.

If you have a great idea, I’ll support your great idea. But if you don’t have a great idea, I won’t.

I am a Democrat because I believe in what the Democratic Party is supposed to be: taking care of our working-class citizens.

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.

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.

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.

I’d rather fight than eat.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

I hate the idea of telling a woman what to do with her body.

The reason why the Democratic Party fell from grace is because they become nothing more than elitist. That was it. Goldman Sachs – that’s who they were.

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.

I have been a Democrat ever since I registered to vote, and I’ll stay a Democrat, but that’s because of what the Democratic Party was supposed to be.

My state was blue through and through. The reason why my state went red is because my state is a hard labor state, and the Democratic party pulled pitch and ran away from this place and left our people to fend for themselves with nothing.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who fight and die.

We have elected officials who say they’re going to run for office to serve the people. But in reality, they legislate themselves into wealth. They go into office, and after one, two terms, they’re worth millions upon millions of dollars, and that has to stop.

Patrick Morrisey means nothing to me. He is a bootlicker. If shoe polish was poison, he’d be dead.

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.

I’ve dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

I ran in the reddest state of the United States of America. I turned almost 35 percent of the people that voted for Donald Trump back to voting for a Democrat.

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.

You want to win races? You’ve got to get out there, and you’ve got to be vocal, and you’ve got to work. When you win, you’ve got to actually represent. You’ve got to be willing to fight your party.

If you believe in something, be willing to explain it.

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.

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 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.

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.’

I will not take corporate money. I don’t want it.

I’m a combat soldier.

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.

If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re on the menu.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.