Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

We understand their concerns. I think there's been a lot of misinformation or misunderstanding that we don't appreciate the bus drivers and the hard job that they do every day for us in Raleigh County.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.