Joe Manchin

I think we have to be more transparent.

If we don't have programs like this and we're attacked, we won't have civil liberties and privacy.

Every administration that I'm familiar with, including the Obama administration, started out with: We're going to engage them.

What's Russia trying to do and why are they trying to do it?

This is an American problem and we all have to come together to solve it.

He only reacts back out of strength, if we have strength.

He only reacts to power out of power.

Was it under Putin basically all this came back?

Well, did you see basically a drop-off during the 1990s?

My biggest concern right now is I don't know what the American stance is on Russia and who's going to take care of me.

I'm not sure that my United States Senate desk if I jump underneath of it and hold my head will protect me this time, and that's putting it mildly.

I want to thank you for scheduling this hearing and for your work on this important issue.

Imagine what it would be like if West Virginia stopped producing and delivering energy.

The electric grid is essential to our lives and is also the lifeblood of the economy.

First of all, I agree with my friend wholeheartedly. We are asking for a repair. It doesn't make any sense at all to go down the path of repealing until we make an effort to make this better and protect the people who are depending on us…

I just--everything everyone is doing realizing that basically every child is not going to go to 4-year baccalaurean school.

If we don't do something to help them, if we don't do something to make sure that they have the skills that they need to be successful in another career, West Virginia is going to continue to slide, and frankly, we can't afford to.

The Polish ambassador was bragging about they are producing and educating more engineers in Poland than the entire United States.

I was at the Polish Embassy and we were doing a collaboration, State of West Virginia, working as far as in connectivity and trying to exchange in some of our high-tech industries.

We have a thing called Mine Minds. And what this group has done, two entrepreneurs, the one lady had a brother who was a laid off miner in another State.

Lack of natural gas is also slowing the shift to cleaner electricity and is strangling economic development.

Local electric and natural gas utilities urgently need more natural gas.

I am just worried that we really don't have the sense of urgency that, I believe, is called for in this situation.

I commend Senator Murkowski, Senator Cantwell and the entire Committee on what they tried to do for hydro licensing last year.

We didn't reduce any of the 17 agencies. We still have the same 17 agencies.