Coal Industry Quotes

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

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Australia exports millions of tons of coal each year to Asian markets. These same countries are interested in Wyoming coal. I look forward to visiting and seeing a vibrant coal port to better understand the benefits and challenges associated with this method of export.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

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

The nation's coal is stained with blood.

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

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

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.'

Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and let 'the market' decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

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.

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

We are killing, absolutely killing our energy business in this country. Now I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera, but we need much more than wind and solar. You look at our miners, Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business. There is a thing called clean coal. Coal will last for 1,000 years in this country. Now we have natural gas and so many other things because of technology. We have unbelievable, we have found over the last seven years, we have found tremendous wealth under our feet. So good.

I remember at one time there were 44 mining MPs.

Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.

There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.

The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.

I refuse to stand by and watch as Sen. Tester tries to implement his radical environmental agenda here and kill our coal industry and destroy thousands of Montana jobs.