I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.