Jay Rockefeller: “I am absolutely, flat-out sick of it. There are not many principles that will get me over the fact that I am sick of…”

“I am absolutely, flat-out sick of it. There are not many principles that will get me over the fact that I am sick of seeing my people not being able to work when my people--if you are a West Virginian and you go down to North Carolina and apply for a job, and they ask--and this is true--``Where do you come from?'' and you say, ``West Virginia,'' you are hired because of the work ethic, because these people have known jobs. There has been a tradition in parts of our State where people have known jobs. When they have had a chance to get those jobs, there is a 1-percent turnover, or less, and absenteeism is 1 percent or less per year. They work. We had AT&T close down a plant employing 450 people in Charleston, WV, the capital of our State.”