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J. D. Vance

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[Wikipedia] James David Vance is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the state of Ohio in the United States Senate from 2023 to 2025.

Quotes by J. D. Vance · Page 5

Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my…

Chaos

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We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a…

Ask questions

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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet…

Church

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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure…

Army

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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps…

Character

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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But…

Important

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In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage…

Anything

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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little…

City

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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the…

College

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I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

Come

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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture…

African american

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Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to…

Better

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If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the…

Class

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It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't…

Be the first

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Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other…

Belief

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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three'…

Chance

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I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's…

Black

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Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and save for his skin color, he had much in common with…

American

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Many people should leave struggling places in search of economic opportunity, and many of them won't be able to return. Some people…

Home

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I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued…

Believe

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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

Family

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