Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

I think it's time to rebuild America.

This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

Live life to the fullest everyday, 'cause we never know what day will be our last.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.