Top 60 Jim Justice Quotes

My father was a pilot in WWII and I have nothing but the utmost respect for anyone who answers the call to serve our country.

All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I’ll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.

I was raised to be appreciative of others and to be thankful for people who, you know, came and opened a door for you or spent money at your place or whatever.

I spent many years of my childhood in Wyoming County and my roots are deep there.

Christmas is a time to give thanks, and also a time to give back.

I have always said that West Virginia is one of the world’s best-kept secrets, and I truly mean it.

My dad was a great athlete. He started golf at a late age. He started me off real young and all of a sudden both of us got to where we were pretty good players. I was this 12-year-old thinking he was going to be the next Tiger Woods and all of a sudden, before you know it, I’m playing in the State Amateur.

Keeping track of every state vehicle will ensure that state government isn’t wasting money on replacing vehicles. This is a way to streamline government, and when someone asks how many cars the state owns, we will have an exact answer.

I fully support giving our veterans a tax break on military retirement.

We pray every day that the Good Lord will continue to bless our great state and our great people.

Now, I underline – underline, underline, underline – nobody loves the outdoors as much as me. Nobody loves water as much as me.

If President Trump and his administration succeed, West Virginia will succeed.

Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of our waters, and the chance to solve our forestry issues – it’s all right at our fingertips.

Our teachers are good people and they work hard, but we are losing them to other states due to low pay.

I know the Trump family. I know them very well.

Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.

All it is going to take to shut the power grid down to the entire Eastern half of the country is a bomb being placed at a key natural gas pipeline or on a major highway artery to the West.

One of the main goals of the Roads to Prosperity program is to bring jobs to West Virginia and spark economic growth.

In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.

Our state supports personal freedom and we value the second amendment and the rights of the unborn.

If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.

We’ll never, ever stop being 50th in anything as long as we continue to shortchange the future of our state – our young people.

I encourage everyone operating a motor vehicle to be cognizant and aware of motorcyclists while they are on our highways.

Gayle Manchin has a real passion for our state and making sure our kids get a fair shot at success.

As a lifelong sportsman, I am proud to work with our state and federal partners to make elk restoration in West Virginia a success story.

We want to preserve and aggressively grow our arts in West Virginia while at the same time making our education department, and government, more efficient and responsive.

I know about trees. I know about how they eat all the carbon.

Political party doesn’t matter to me.

Since taking the oath of office as our state’s 36th Governor, I’ve met so many dedicated state workers that take great pride in being hard-working public servants.

Our great state is filled with heroes from all walks of life who work on the front lines to keep our neighborhoods safe and respond to a crisis at the drop of the hat.

We need to keep our kids and teachers in the classroom.

By simplifying and streamlining the tax filing process it lifts a huge burden off of the middle class.

We need to get everyone into the outdoors, young and old, to enjoy and experience the unmatched beauty of our state’s streams and lakes while participating in an activity, fishing, that’s just plain out fun.

Any good business needs to stay on the leading edge of technology, and I want the same for our state.

The programs on Public Broadcasting help promote our state to the world and educate our people.

West Virginians should be protected against preexisting conditions.

I want somehow, some way, for us to be able to make our community and technical colleges free.

When the power grid gets compromised the coal from Appalachia can be trucked to our power plants so they can be put back on line as quickly as possible.

Now, let me say this about education. I’ve said it till I’m blue-green. Not everybody is cut out for the traditional pathway of a four-year degree.

Slashing budgets for our K-12 schools, our higher education institutions and our neediest residents simply isn’t the answer.

WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.

There are so many great things happening in West Virginia, and I will continue to work every day to move our state forward.

The Road to Prosperity program is the centerpiece of my vision for West Virginia’s economic recovery.

When I see a mistake, I make it right.

Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.

My goal is to make tourism an economic driver and bring jobs to West Virginia.

We need to develop multiple lakes within West Virginia, multiple lakes that can give us hydroelectric power – which maybe we don’t need, but at the same time, they can give us flood control.

The last thing we need to do is drive more people out of West Virginia.

I’m a marketing guy.

We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.

I’m working as hard as I can for West Virginia and its people to continue to provide the coal that keeps the lights on in our country.

I love kids. I love – I love what they bring to us every day. I have a great fortune to be with kids in the wintertime, a whole lot. And I just – I think you can learn so much, and they’re – it’s easy to say that they’re a hope, but they are.

I’m a people person.

Keeping our Eastern coalfields and our miners working is critical to national security.

I want to find a niche crop that we can market to the world. Why can’t we have the Almost Heaven Tomato? It can be the next Vidalia Onion or Idaho potato.

Protecting our wild and wonderful landscape is good for nature, good for tourism and good for West Virginia’s economy and quality of life.

I have been a business guy all my life, and I know that when you have a real problem, you can’t cut your way out of the problem. Too often we try to skinny everything down and not fund it properly.

We are committed to making construction zones as safe as we possibly can for motorists and those working on the job.

I think education should be our centerpiece.

It’s real simple, if we don’t give our schools the tools to compete then we’ll never improve.