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J.D. Vance
106 quotes
“Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars”
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“He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.”
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Recorded in: Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars" Wall Street Journal (January 31, 2023)
“We have built a foreign policy of hectoring and moralizing and lecturing countries that don't want anything to do with this. The Chinese have a foreign policy of building roads and bridges and feeding poor people, and I think that we should pursue a foreign policy, a diplomacy, of respect and a foreign policy that is not rooted in moralizing; it is rooted in the national interests of this country.”
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Recorded in: FIRE GRANTS AND SAFETY ACT--Continued (April 19, 2023)
“The United States has provided a blanket of security to Europe for far too long.”
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“The question each European nation needs to ask itself is this: are you prepared to defend yourself? And the question the US must ask is: if our European allies can't even defend themselves, are they allies, or clients?”
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“In the US, justifications for the war often depend on a contemporary domino theory: unless we stop Putin in Ukraine, he won't stop there. But the time has come for Europe to stand on its own feet. That doesn't mean it has to stand alone, but it must not continue to use America as a crutch.”
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Recorded in: Europe must stand on its own two feet on defence", Financial Times (February 19, 2024)
“I have to beat up on the UK – just one additional thing. I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about, you know, one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is nuclear proliferation, though, of course, the Biden administration doesn't care about it. And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it's Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it's actually the UK, since Labour just took over.”
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Recorded in: At the National Conservative Conference in Washington DC (July 11, 2024), as cited in Jessica Elgot "Trump’s running mate says UK could be ‘first Islamist country’ with nuclear weapons", The Guardian (July 16, 2024).
“[On attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East from forces connected to Iran] They have attacked, certain militia groups have attacked and I think we've done the right thing, a proportionate response. If they hit us, we have to hit them back but if you're talking about an attack on the Iranian mainland, that would be a significant escalation right now that would be a mistake.”
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Recorded in: On Face the Nation (CBS, October 29, 2023) "JD Vance says he would not support authorizing military action in Iran", The Hill (October 29, 2023)
“There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really valuable when you have kids in your life. And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives. You know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable. And of course, you talk about going on Twitter — final point I’ll make is, you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home.”
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Recorded in: Vance: 'Childless people' in US leadership 'more sociopathic'", The Hill (July 30, 2024)
“Democrats say that it is racist to believe, well, they say it’s racist to do anything.”
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Recorded in: J.D. Vance Toasts With Diet Mountain Dew After ‘Racist’ Joke Falls Flat", Yahoo News (August 2, 2024)
“I think Donald Trump didn't serve in the military, but he didn't lie about it.”
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“Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military. He didn't say that he went to Vietnam when he didn't. This is the problem. I don't criticize anybody. Whether they served in our country or not.”
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Recorded in: JD Vance Confronted on Donald Trump Avoiding Service in Vietnam War", Newsweek (August 11, 2024)
“Average new car costs nearly $50,000 a year.”
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Recorded in: Watch: Idiot J.D. Vance’s Speech Derails With Embarrassing Flubs", New Republic (August 14, 2024)
“She’s not doing a very good job.”
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Recorded in: Claimed about Tom Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary, quoted in "Watch: Idiot J.D. Vance’s Speech Derails With Embarrassing Flubs", New Republic (August 14, 2024)
“We can't worry about polls.”
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“I'm telling you, every single person who’s watching this, the Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot.”
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Recorded in: JD Vance Compares Kamala Harris to Jeffrey Epstein in Fox News Interview", The Daily Beast (August 18, 2024)
“Consistently what you’ve seen in 2016 and 2020, is that the media uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict within Republican voters.”
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Recorded in: Claimed when commenting polls presented by Fox News, quoted in "JD Vance thinks polls showing surge of Harris support are "fake"", Salon (August 18, 2024)
“I just don’t understand a person in American politics in 2024 who’s whining about what happened to them instead of using their leadership and using their influence to make the lives of American citizens better.”
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Recorded in: Critics Think JD Vance's DNC Response Applies Perfectly To Trump", Huffington Post (August 22, 2024)
“Donald Trump can point to four years of successful leadership and say "I delivered rising prices".”
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Recorded in: Some of the witless things JD Vance said yesterday", Boing Boing (August 22, 2024)
“Sounds like we got some fans and some haters.”
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Recorded in: Sounds like we got some fans & some haters": Vance is booed before speaking in front of firefighters union in Boston.", The Count(August 29, 2024)
“President Trump and I are proud to be the most pro-worker Republican ticket in history.”
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Recorded in: JD Vance Booed During Speech to Firefighters", Newsweek (August 29, 2024)
“While it’s tempting, and I’m sure it would make some big headlines, don’t worry any-ev-everybody I’m not going to try to take off my shirt here.”
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Recorded in: J.D. Vance Booed by Entire Crowd During Dumpster Fire Speech", New Republic (August 29, 2024)
“They couldn't beat him at the ballot box, so they tried to bankrupt him. They failed at that, so they tried to impeach him. They failed at that. So they tried to put him in prison, and they even tried to kill him.”
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Recorded in: They tried to kill him' is now the bogus claim Vance uses to introduce Trump" / "One person tried to kill Trump ‒ and he wasn't a Democrat", USA Today (August 29, 2024)
“I’ve said a lot of stupid things on camera, sometimes when you’re in the public eye you make mistakes and again. I think the best way to deal with it is to laugh at ourselves, laugh at this stuff and try to have some fun in politics.”
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Recorded in: Vance Bizarrely Compares Harris's CNN Interview To Flubbed Answer by Teen Beauty Queen 17 Years Ago", Inkl (August 30, 2024)
“Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”
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Recorded in: Vance pushes false accusations of Haitians eating pets", The Hill (September 9, 2024)
“I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music, are fans of her or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from their interests and the problems of most Americans.”
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Recorded in: Claimed about Taylor Swift after she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election, quoted in "JD Vance's Response to Taylor Swift Endorsing Kamala Harris Backfires", Newsweek (September 13, 20…
“The American media totally ignored this stuff, until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”
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Recorded in: Said about his claims about Haitians supposedly eating cats, dogs and ducks in Springfield, Ohia, quoted in "‘A piece of garbage’: Republican Ohio Gov. condemns Trump-Vance false immigrant pet-eating conspiracy", CNBC (…
“Eggs, when Kamala Harris took office, were short of $1.50 a dozen. Now a dozen eggs will cost you around $4.”
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Recorded in: JD Vance mocked for another botched photo opp — as he blames Harris for eggs costing $4 while standing in front of a $2.99 display2, Independent (September 24, 2024)
“The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check. And since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on.”
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Recorded in: October 1, 2024, addressing debate moderators ( )
“Our interest very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country,”
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“America doesn’t have to constantly police every region of the world. We should empower people to police their own regions of the world. One: We would save a lot of money. Two: We’d save a lot of focus.”
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Recorded in: Vance: US and Israeli interests won’t always overlap; we don’t want war with Iran" The Times of Israel (October 29, 2024)
“In two days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris.”
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Recorded in: Election 2024 live updates: Trump, Harris await Election Day results; new polls", USA Today (November 4, 2024)
“I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.”
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“Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential – and trust me, I say this with all humour – if American democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg's scolding you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.”
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Recorded in: Speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany (February 14, 2025), as cited in "Read: JD Vance’s full speech on the fall of Europe", The Spectator (London, February 14, 2025) (Archive save)
“I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. And frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq.”
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Recorded in: From an interview with the Unherd website, as cited in "JD Vance says Europe should have done more to stop Iraq War", DW (April 15, 2025).
“President Trump has done more than anyone in my lifetime to earn the trust of the movement he leads. I am proud to stand beside him.”
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“There are many lies the corporate media tells about President Trump. One of the most glaring is that he's impulsive or short-tempered. Anyone who has seen him operate under pressure knows that's ridiculous.”
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Recorded in: Trump tells ABC Musk 'lost his mind'; 'not particularly' interested in talking to him", ABC News (June 6, 2025)
“I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents”
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“Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list. That is an important thing.”
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Recorded in: Said in an October 2024 podcast, quoted in "Theo Von asks ‘what changed’ with Vance on Epstein files" The Hill (July 17, 2025)
“Well, I've finally made it.”
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Recorded in: Reaction to being parodied in South Park, quoted in "JD Vance responds to South Park’s brutal takedown of Trump admin" NDTV (August 7, 2025)
“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”
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Recorded in: JD Vance Bungles Basic History While Talking Russia-Ukraine Negotiations" Huffington Post (August 24, 2025)
“[On the economy] You don't turn the Titanic around overnight. It takes time to fix what was broken.”
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Recorded in: From a speech in Toledo, Ohio (January 22, 2026), as cited in "JD Vance Unironically Compares America to the Titanic", The New Republic (January 23, 2026).
“[On UFOs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)] I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion.”
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“Every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there, and there are things that are very difficult to explain. And I naturally go, when I hear about sort of extra-natural phenomenon, that's where I go, is the Christian understanding that, you know, there's a lot of good out there, but there's also some evil out there. I think that one of the devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed.”
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Recorded in: On the Benny Johnson podcast (28 March 2026), as cited in "JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs", The Guardian (30 March 2026)
“I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology”
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Recorded in: April 14, 2026
“Now, you can't boo me. I'm the Vice President of the United States.”
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Recorded in: Vance forbids Air Force cadets from heckling him at graduation: 'You can't boo me'" RawStory (May 28, 2026)
“I think that America has earned the trust of that region of the world”
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Recorded in: Claimed about the Middle East after the US attack on Iran, quoted in "Israel's 'freakout' over US-Iran agreement a 'little bit odd', attacks in Beirut 'not acceptable': JD Vance" The Telegraph of India (June 18, 2026)
“You're a country of 9 million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
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Recorded in: Said about Israel, quoted in "Israel's 'freakout' over US-Iran agreement a 'little bit odd', attacks in Beirut 'not acceptable': JD Vance" The Telegraph of India (June 18, 2026)
“If you give Donald Trump an IQ test with the other 45, 46, presidents that the United States has had, I guarantee he'd be either near the top or at the top.”
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Recorded in: Vance Humiliates Himself With Bonkers Trump IQ Brag" Daily Beast / Yahoo News (June 19, 2026)
“If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy. [...] If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration.”
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