Political Quotes

“let me first of all say thanks to my dear friend Senator Casey from Pennsylvania. If you don't come from a coal-mining region or a coal-mining State, you probably don't understand the culture of coal mining, the people who do this work, and the families who support them. It might be hard to explain it, but we are going to try to give you a picture of the most patriotic people in America. What I mean by that is they have done the heavy lifting. They have done everything that has been asked of them by this country to basically make us the greatest country on Earth--the superpower of the world, if you will. That has been because of the energy we have had domestically in our backyard and the people willing to harvest that for us. So when you look at this country and you look at how we are treating people who have done the job and heavy lifting for over 100 years, the coal miners in West Virginia feel this way: They feel like the returning veterans from Vietnam, the returning servicemen who came from Vietnam--a war that was not appreciated and soldiers who were treated less than honorably for doing the job they did in serving their country. Americans now want to cast them aside. It is just unfair-- totally unfair. This country was so dependent upon this industry that in 1947--which will be 70 years tomorrow--President Harry S. Truman and John L.…”