Richard Ojeda Quotes

Richard Ojeda

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 25, 1970

West Virginia built this nation... we deserve respect.

Richard Ojeda

It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.

Richard Ojeda

I don't think I'm special.

Richard Ojeda

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

Richard Ojeda

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

Richard Ojeda

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

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I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

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I've got Republican people from all over that have contacted and said, 'Look, we're going to support you,' because I say what needs to be said.

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Patrick Morrisey means nothing to me. He is a bootlicker. If shoe polish was poison, he'd be dead.

Richard Ojeda

I'd rather fight than eat.

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We have to stop letting people come in here and make millionaires and billionaires of themselves off of West Virginia while West Virginia remains poor.

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The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that looks out for the working-class citizens.

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We got to fight to protect Social Security.

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We need to take care of our veterans. If I'm going to send you away and break you, I'm going to fix you when you come home.

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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.

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I spent 24 years in the United States Army.

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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.

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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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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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I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

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