"One of the top priorities that I have is the adequate need for funding of coal communities in Virginia and throughout Appalachia."
"We need to reclaim the abandoned mine lands in a way that both supports economic development and helps us transition from an economy that was built on coal."
"Landowner's rights have to be respected."
"Whenever you can bring Tim Kaine from his side of the political spectrum and Morgan Griffith from my side of the political spectrum together, you have done something."
"I agree with you that trying to say it is either climate or forest management is a false dichotomy."
"I appreciate that. As one of the sponsors of the bills, a lot of times people think, why does a conservative Republican get into this and champion it?"
"When I was a young man in the 1980s, some of my friends were smuggling marijuana into the hospital in our community..."
"I told them my position on medical marijuana, which I went public with in 1998 on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates."
"Virginia actually has the oldest medicinal marijuana law on the books."
"It causes me some great concern that apparently the FDA thinks it is OK for opioids and opiates and barbiturates, but somehow marijuana should stay schedule I."
"Innovation is extremely important."
"I do think we need to have some research parity so that we have our fossil fuels and our renewables both being researched at a high level."