We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

I've lost over 800 West Virginians the last year. Lost their lives to opiate and drug addiction. This is something that we've got to fight. We need to have treatment centers that take care of people. We need to start basically education from kindergarten all the way through adulthood. We need to get involved and stop this epidemic that's going on that's just ravaging.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.