Joe Manchin: “There is nobody in West Virginia that wants to drink dirty water or breathe dirty air, the same as Alaska.”

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.

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.

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

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