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Joe Manchin

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“I mean, I basically started when I got involved in the political arena called Retail Government. Retail government means I treat you as a constituent, as a valued customer. I want your business. I want you to be happy with what I give you, the services, and I want you to tell your friends about it so I can help more. In business, the word of mouth is the best advertising. And I want the people to come to government being your partner, not your provider. And I've always said that. In a democracy, it only works if we all participate. If you're not participating, you're not willing to get involved. I have so many people, Kara. I can't even talk about would you run for public office? Heck, no, I never get involved. I don't want people beating me up and I don't want people talking about me. I don't want my whole past being flashed in front of me. I said, that's a small price to pay for the great country we live in and the life you have. Someone's got to sacrifice. It doesn't work if you don't. So if you're not willing to...”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we tried. We have tried, but the lobbying is so hard from the tech industry. They say, oh no, if you do that, then we will not have the audiences that we have. We will not have the attraction that we have now that you can almost do or say anything. I said, you know, we've always been held accountable. There used to be truth in advertising that way, many years ago, you couldn't say something with inaccurate. You'd be held accountable and liable as one of the broadcasters of three major broadcasters back then. That all changed. So things just gotten out of hand. And, you know, you got to hope that can we still maintain this experiment called self-governing?”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never grew up that way. If you and I were friends and there was a problem, I'd come talk to you and say, Kara, I just don't agree with what you're saying. Did you really mean this or somehow we can work this problem out? Today you don't have to confront that. A click. So you want to look at the social media? I think basically we should hold the social platforms accountable for this visceral language that allow everything to happen. And then section 230 of the federal code protects them. You can't go after them. That's wrong. AI coming out now? We have to hold people that allows this type of rhetoric accountable for the consequences.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm hoping that all of us said, Mr. President, and every senator and every congressional person, every local official, every governor tone it down from the standpoint. I might not agree with you, okay? But I don't have to call you names. I don't have to call you out and think it's all your fault. The system has allowed it. Let me give you another example, Karen. After this horrible tragedy, last couple two or three days, I've heard acquaintances and associates talking about they defriended this person. I defriended 10 people Not big on social media, so anything I can tell you is this I know with a click you can eliminate that person being your friend.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, very easily. All we need is 60 votes. We had 56 votes. It was a no-brainer. 80% of the public wants background checks so we know who's buying guns and if they have a right to have them. Couldn't pass that because of politics. And someone says, Do you think it's going to change now because of the murder of Charlie Kirk? I said, if I couldn't change it with 20 children getting massacred. Not expecting it, and it's not going to change unless the politicians, the elected officials, the representative that we have in this form of democracy that we have start speaking in a tone that we would want to be spoke to. If you don't, don't expect anything different. If this visceral atonement continues, you're going to have what you have now, maybe more of it. It's horrible”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm hoping to see it I think the public needs to see it. And if not, then I'm wrong, okay? I'd like for him to. I like to think that about everybody. I would have thought that, you know, we could have passed the mansion to me bill after the massacre at”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think, and I've said this we all have better angels in us. I'm hoping President Trump's better angel because it starts at the top. The better angels speak to him, speaking to me, and speaking to all like the officials, that this has got to be ratcheted down, this visceral making it normalized, this attack, and the way you speak about people. I came from a little town farming, West Virginia, a little Hokko mining community. I was held accountable and responsible for my words and my actions.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our democracy is based on a representative form. That means we'll govern ourselves and we'll choose who we want to govern for us. That's who we elect. And with that being said, I've always said whoever your president, whoever you're elected official, they're responsible to respond to all of us. They're representing me. West Virginia's looking to me. Am I kind of speaking their language, speaking for them, or trying to make sure people understand who we are in West Virginia?”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we had a big laugh about that. I said the party shouldn't determine who you are as a person. And I've never been a big party person, but I've always respected both sides. In West Virginia, they were always kind of conservative and moderate in their thought process. I know President Trump, and I can assure you that's not the President Trump, what you see on that when he speaks and the cameras in the public, when you're with him, he's gracious, he's easy to work with, you can talk to him, it's reasonable on and on and on. So all I'm saying to everybody that's elected official,”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let me say this if I can care. I know Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. The first two years I was probably the only Democrat that he really spent any time with because I come from a centrist background. He always said, well, you know, Joe, you're so moderate in your view is why don't you just be Republican? And I says, Mr. President, why don't you just still be a moderate centrist Democrat?”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, even if it's your friend or vice versa, if you're a deed, in my case, being a moderate centrist, I guess, conservative Democrat, which most West Virginians were, I said, now, wait a minute, you want me to raise money, and when someone's running against my friends, whether it be Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins, McRomney, whoever may be, you want me to give that person whoever it may be, just because they have a D by their name, money to defeat my friend.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Much as you don't want to hear it, so it hurts me too. That's not there, it's easy to say no to someone you don't know. When I first got to the Senate, I could not believe in November 15th of 2010, and I get there, and I thought that would be kind of camaraderie everybody's having a great working together. They might have a differences debate on the floor, then go about your way. That wasn't it. You were expected to go raise money every day, make phone calls, and the money you had in your pack, political action committee pack, was supposed to be used to defeat anybody on the other side. So if you have an or by your name, any deed that's running, you're against.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were talking, Kerry, and I think the way you could probably fix it is, first of all, I tried to pass a piece of legislation, just an ethical violation if we campaigned against each other. If you know someone, it's hard to say no to your friend. And when you do say no, it's almost like with a tear in your eye. I don't want to give you the news that you don't want to hear.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“and that horrific tragedy, like this is a horrific tragedy, Charlie Kirk and his family, whether you agree, whether you paid attention, whether you even knew, but to have a young man who was willing to go to campuses, speak his mind and ask for debates back and forth, right, wrong or indifferent, okay? But to be taken out like that, it's just unbelievable to me. visceral. Visceral attitude that people have towards the political dynamics today is just something I've never seen.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Washington. It's going to change. Let me just say this to you. One of the most difficult times of my career being in the U.S. Senate from 2010 to 2025 was a Sandy Hook shooting, the massacre of these little children. That went through me. I just still can't get over the fact that so many of those parents couldn't even have an open casket for their child. You would have thought we could have at least had what we call background checks, just a reasonable approach to something saying we're doing something.”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Two years, but they start campaigning the day after, okay? So they're always busy. The Senate, you have about a third of the Senate that's always in psycho every two years. So with that being said, Cara, then to know each other and to be able to socialize and all that. So I would always try to find some time to invite a few down to my boat. It's a big trawler. And everyone seems to enjoy it, but I always had kind of a rule that you need to bring both sides. So if we're talking to three or four Democrats, we have to find three or four Republicans. I don't want to have a partisan, just a partisan get-together. Doesn't prove anything. And we were successful at that and had a good time. And I saw just that little effort we were making, people were talking, people were doing amendments together on bills that they would have never done before. So all that's very possible, but you said, what's wrong with it?”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, first of all, you have to understand how the system works in Washington, Congress, 535. First of all, we don't know each other, so you're not building relationships. Very few people live there anymore. So they come in on Monday night at 5.30. You come in, you vote, and then boom, you go your own way. Tuesday and Wednesday, if you have committee meetings, you'll run into them. They're always having fundraisers. All 435 congresspeople are in cycle every year”
2025-09-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT