9 Quotes by Cecil Roberts

What's Jerry Kilgore doing? Standing on the stage with somebody who wants to take your Social Security,

going under your house and taking the support beams out.

There is an image that people work in the mines because they can't work anywhere else. It's just not true.

Why was it expending precious resources hunting for ways that allow operators to use hazardous belt air to ventilate miners' working sections instead of protecting trapped miners? For an agency with such a clear mandate as that which Congress wrote into the Mine Act -- to protect and improve miners' health and safety, we ask you to consider how MSHA could have gotten so terribly misdirected.

We built the middle class down here and we're not prepared to give it up.

When people get mad, they're more likely to do something. When I go back to Congress ... what's happened at Sago and what's happened here, there's got to be a lot of mad people.

But Senator Byrd doesn't just stand up for coal miners and our families, ... He stands up for every working family in West Virginia and always has in his years as a United States senator.

To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough

And quite frankly, if we look at the makeup of the House and the Senate and the White House, if we don't have bipartisan help, it's almost impossible to see any program that benefits workers.