Quotes by Richard Ojeda - Page 2

We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.
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Candidates
Democratic Party
Rooted
Working Class
Neighbors
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Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.
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Campaign Contributions
Big Money
Campaign
Contributions
Represent
Politicians
Saw
Supposed
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If all you have is coal, that's the only thing that we have. Don't hate the coal miner for trying to get the only decent job that we have in West Virginia that can allow them to feed their family.
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Coal
Decent
Virginia
West Virginia
Feed
Miner
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You want to win races? You've got to get out there, and you've got to be vocal, and you've got to work. When you win, you've got to actually represent. You've got to be willing to fight your party.
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Vocal
Races
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When I hear Ivanka Trump saying how she looks forward to working side by side with Gen. Kelly - a guy who's got 40 years' worth of experience leading troops all across the world - and she makes handbags, come on.
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Handbags
Troops
Gen
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If you look at Middle America and the reason why it's so red is because the Democratic Party cannot relate to them. They definitely have not done anything to support people from where I come from in West Virginia.
Richard Ojeda /
Democratic Party
Virginia
West Virginia
Done Look People
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Families in Logan, West Virginia, were going through the same struggles as families in the Bronx, San Francisco, and Houston. This was not a West Virginia problem. This is an American problem, and it has to change.
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Bronx
Houston
San Francisco
Virginia
West Virginia
Francisco
San
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I'm saying right now that if you're going to serve this nation in a federal position, you need to start proving that you're willing to sacrifice first. I'm saying... that people are sick and tired of the millionaires running the system.
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Sacrifice
Millionaires
Proving
Sick And Tired
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My state was blue through and through. The reason why my state went red is because my state is a hard labor state, and the Democratic party pulled pitch and ran away from this place and left our people to fend for themselves with nothing.
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Blue
Democratic Party
Labor
Ran
Our People
Pulled
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Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.
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Bills
Rely
Unions
Time Family People
Feed
Family Time People
Family Time Country
Quite Some Time
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We always keep saying, 'We're the best, we're the best.' Other countries offer healthcare for their people. We don't, so how are we the best there? We've got poverty all over the place, and it's the haves and the have-nots, so how are we the best there?
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Healthcare
Other Countries
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We have elected officials who say they're going to run for office to serve the people. But in reality, they legislate themselves into wealth. They go into office, and after one, two terms, they're worth millions upon millions of dollars, and that has to stop.
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Elected Officials
Officials
Legislate
Millions Of Dollars
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I know coal is dirty, but that's all we got. So as much as I'd love to have clean energy - solar panels everywhere - right now, all we have is coal. The people I love, and the people that I grew up with, that's their livelihood, and I don't want to see them starve.
Richard Ojeda /
Clean
Clean Energy
Coal
Dirty
Energy
Grew
Livelihood
Solar Panels
Everywhere
Love People Know
Now
Love Energy People
Got
Solar
Starve
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When President Kennedy come to West Virginia, he spoke about West Virginia and the people that gave the people here pride. And my family, my father remembers when President Kennedy was in Logan County and at places like the smokehouse, standing on chairs, talking to people.
Richard Ojeda /
Chairs
County
President Kennedy
Virginia
West Virginia
Remembers
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When I retired from the military, I come home. And the reason why I got into politics is, you know, I spent a lot of time away from my wife and my kids. And I come home, and I found out I have kids in my backyard that have it worse than the children I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Richard Ojeda /
Afghanistan
Retired
Backyard
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I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, 'I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.' And sadly, that's apparently a victory here in a place like southern West Virginia.
Richard Ojeda /
Avoided
Beaten
Debate
Southern
Virginia
West Virginia
Apparently
Carol
Miller
Sadly
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I believe that if we are going to create jobs in this country, then let's create jobs that will absolutely put the working-class people at work to the point where they have one job. They don't have to work three because they have to work Wendy's, McDonald's, and Walmart to survive.
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Walmart
Working Class
Mcdonald
To Survive
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You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'
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Coal
Job Training
Minimum Wage
Virginia
West Virginia
Family Work Support
Miner
Wage
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In Iraq, I listened to David Petraeus speak every day about how we had to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure and protect it. But, if we're going to go trillions of dollars in debt over Iraq, why can't we go billions of dollars in debt and make every single coal-producing plant clean in West Virginia?
Richard Ojeda /
Billions
Infrastructure
Plant
Virginia
West Virginia
David
Billions Of Dollars
Listened
Day Every Day Speak
Rebuild
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I lived in a bubble: my whole entire military career where I thought that everything was perfect. And I thought that every time we went overseas and we fought for this country, we were doing it because we were trying to get other people a sliver of the greatness that we have here in the United States of America.
Richard Ojeda /
Greatness
United States Of America
Bubble
Fought
Time Country People
Sliver
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Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!
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Allowing
Democrat
Elderly
Social Security
Cookie
Elevate
Jar
Stand Up
Veterans
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We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.
Richard Ojeda /
Coal
Colony
Timber
Billionaires
Extracted
Industries
Our People
Remained
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