Joe Manchin: “I hope you can see why Senators would be confused by these conflicting statements.”

They better figure out how they lost moderate, centrist, fiscally responsible, socially compassionate.

I'm not endorsing here. Never. I think that's basically something that could destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology.

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.

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.