"The one body that has been recovered was the one person that was left right there where the force of the blast came. And the 12, the tram was in perfect condition. It was on the tracks. There was no disturbance. There are no buckets. There is no anything, they would have gotten off and walked and ta..."
"Thanks to West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, it's the new name of Randy and Anna's street in their little town of Simpson."
"It's the new name of Randy and Anna's street in their little town of Simpson."
"I don't want to believe that anybody would ever put a cost to human life. That's me speaking. That's the state of West Virginia speaking. I can tell you how much a roof boulder costs. I can tell you h..."
"In West Virginia, Governor Joe Manchin is urging all coal mining operations to shut down, asking the companies to stop operations until safety checks can be conducted on the mining facilities."
"I can't tell you that and I'm not here to blame anybody. I really am not. I don't know what happened. I don't know why the concerns and the safety for the men has not advanced as much as the manufactu..."
"Oh absolutely. I think you're going to have all -- we're looking at all of our state regulations and rules right now."
"I'm going to Washington tomorrow. I'm taking what we've done in this historic first step. We did it in one day."
"If you don't call us within 15 minutes so that we can get the proper equipment, the proper people on the road, a $100,000 fine. I don't know how more serious you can be than that."
"There's been total cooperation through this thing that we did. And without the cooperation, we couldn't have made this historic move that we made today."
"As of today, West Virginia's made a commitment and we are changing things and the mines will be the safest in the nation in this state."