The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism. — J. D. Vance Childhood Copy Share Image
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… — J. D. Vance Class Copy Share Image
One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real...… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people. — J. D. Vance Abstract Copy Share Image
Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing… — J. D. Vance Hate Copy Share Image
There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to… — J. D. Vance Basic training Copy Share Image
Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to… — J. D. Vance Church Copy Share Image
We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do… — J. D. Vance Courage Copy Share Image
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard… — J. D. Vance America Copy Share Image
From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale, from other places, people have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that… — J. D. Vance Marines Copy Share Image
The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in… — J. D. Vance Christian faith Copy Share Image
If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old and said, 'Well, what's going to happen to this… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and… — J. D. Vance Vietnam Copy Share Image
I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just… — J. D. Vance Competition Copy Share Image
We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit… — 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
We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone… — J. D. Vance Country Copy Share Image
If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little… — J. D. Vance American politics Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who… — J. D. Vance Coalition Copy Share Image
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture… — J. D. Vance African american 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 Care Copy Share Image
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people… — J. D. Vance Democrat Copy Share Image
We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a… — 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
We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails… — J. D. Vance Family Copy Share Image
In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren,… — J. D. Vance Death Copy Share Image
Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency… — J. D. Vance Age Copy Share Image
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of… — J. D. Vance Data Copy Share Image
There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other… — J. D. Vance Belief Copy Share Image
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure… — J. D. Vance Americans Copy Share Image
There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most… — J. D. Vance Books 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
During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three'… — J. D. Vance Chance Copy Share Image
