7 Quotes by Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Miners only have a one-hour supply of oxygen underground, but mine safety teams can be located up to two hours away. That's not very comforting.

My doctors told me I would have to go into the hospital if I don't get it.

I've been getting this medication for 10 years without any problems, and it costs a few dollars a month.

It's just great to have something we can all do together. Sometimes it's kind of hard getting the kids to want to do it, but once we get to the park, they really like it.

It seems to me this law is a way to demonize and penalize the very people who are trying so hard to do the work. It is very punitive to me. Instead, why can't we think about how we can help teachers go into a school and turn it around?

It's a commodity to them, but to us it's our community.