John Raese Quotations

What we're getting ready for in this country is something that you won't believe. Your parents probably talked to you about the Great Depression. We're on our way. I can tell you that.

I coincide with much of his beliefs -- low taxes, low regulation and a support for a free enterprise.

I think we've lost the set of keys right now. I don't want to tinker around with the carburetor ... I want to take the motor out.

Weirton Steel, if they had just left them alone, would still employ 19,000 people today and would be highly competitive.

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.

Everybody who would make $36,000 a year or less wouldn't pay any tax. That's 20 million Americans.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern?

Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

The federal government has no business in any school system in any state in the country.

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.

Government, right now, owns 70 percent of all land west of the Mississippi. Government today will not let us drill on what is called the Pacific Rim. How much oil are in these two areas? Mind-boggling.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

A national sales tax penalizes the poor. My system eliminates all standards of taxation.