Matt Mead Quotes

We don’t want terrorists in Wyoming or anywhere else in this country. And we have got to make sure the federal government is doing its job by not allowing these folks into our states.

The advancement of coal research will benefit Wyoming, its people, and the coal industry. I fully support it.

Australia exports millions of tons of coal each year to Asian markets. These same countries are interested in Wyoming coal. I look forward to visiting and seeing a vibrant coal port to better understand the benefits and challenges associated with this method of export.

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

The president needs to make certain an absolutely thorough vetting system is in place that will not allow terrorists from Syria or any other part of the world into our country.

If you have the wind farms but no transmission, you just have things blowing in the wind.

We need to recognize our agreements and disagreements with whomever is chosen as president, but we can’t continue to just stall out in Washington just because it’s not who I voted for. We have still an obligation and duty to challenge and to work through.

We’ve got to make sure that we have the workers of tomorrow.

We don’t want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.

In terms of energy sectors, we need coal; we need oil; we need gas; we need uranium. And we need to have rules and regulations that allow those companies to stay in business.

If you want improvements in coal, you’ve got to keep people in the business.

At some point, if you don’t take care of the roads today, it’s like any other maintenance issue: you’re going to end up paying a lot more down the road.

To shut off coal, or to say you can’t have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.

Anytime you’re saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it’s certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

You have to recognize what the markets are doing, what the rules and regulations are doing, and all the more reasons that we’ve got to find some more solutions in particular with coal.

I’m in politics, but I’m not an expert in politics.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.