It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us.… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country would really… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
