Sherrod Brown Quotes

More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

America's industrial strength was built on burning coal. No politician wanted to mess with coal.

America was built on cheap and abundant coal.

If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it.

Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

As governor of Washington, I've seen firsthand what's possible when you invest in clean energy - reducing carbon pollution and supporting family-wage jobs that are growing twice as fast as those in any other industry.

To shut off coal, or to say you can't have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

I'm pleased with our state's willingness to support responsible off-shore energy production while also giving special focus to enhance the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast.

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation's energy reserves.

I don't support a moratorium. I think the responsible production and use of the Marcellus Shale gas is actually part of the secret sauce as to how we will create jobs and how we will compete and win.