Joe Manchin

They don't believe in these extreme causes and going to the extreme mats and fighting each other and hating the other side.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

We’re not trying to start another party.

We’re trying to build a true independent network.

So you’re not making a commitment that you owe your soul to the company store, or basically to the parties, whether it be a D or an R, they’re going to have to earn your support, but the people will be much better off, and they’ll…

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

My observation, and recommendation from observation, would be, John, trust me, set yourself free and become an independent.

I will make a decision in January -- at the end of this year.

We don't even have a budget anymore.

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

The politics are so toxic, the more you talk about this party, that party, what candidate and this candidate.

We need to do permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

I will make my political decision in December, whatever it may be.

Let's see who's involved. Let's wait until we see who all the players are.

If we don't do permitting, and we don't have permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

We have accumulated the greatest amount of debt in the history of our country in the shortest period of time.

It's broken. It needs to be fixed.

It can't be this total political division. It's not my fault. It's your fault. It's their fault.

They’re the kind of the centrist Democrats you need.

Listen, this is not normal. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And we shouldn’t be hating each other.

There’s a lot of good people out here that are looking for a pathway forward.

There’s a lot of young, aggressive, good people with good intentions that love the country and have the youth and vigor to do it, and I’m going to be looking for those people.

Lets put some respect back in and the dignity and decorum in the life of this great country of ours, lets be Americans first and put the -- put the country before the party.