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J.D. Vance
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“[Describing Nixon] Young senator, vice president, writes some bestselling books, is hated by the media. [...] It kind of sounds like JD Vance. I've always liked Richard Nixon.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California (June 25, 2026), as cited in "Vance says Watergate would be 'a 12-hour news story' today", NBC News/AP (June 26, 2026).
“We’re going to do what we have to do in order to ensure that their efforts don’t lead to a worldwide energy crisis. We’ve been quite successful up to this point. Gas, frankly, could’ve been much, much higher were it not for our efforts.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: JD Vance Says You Should Be Grateful Gas Prices Aren’t Even Higher" New Republic (September 3, 2026)
“What Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution. He can bring jobs back simply by punishing offshoring companies into submission. As he told a New Hampshire crowd—folks all too familiar with the opioid scourge—he can cure the addiction epidemic by building a Mexican wall and keeping the cartels out. He will spare the United States from humiliation and military defeat with indiscriminate bombing. It doesn’t matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan. He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein. The great tragedy is that many of the problems Trump identifies are real, and so many of the hurts he exploits demand serious thought and measured action—from governments, yes, but also from community leaders and individuals. Yet so long as people rely on that quick high, so long as wolves point their fingers at everyone but themselves, the nation delays a necessary reckoning. There is no self-reflection in the midst of a false euphoria. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it. I’m not sure when or how that realization arrives: maybe in a few months, when Trump loses the election; maybe in a few years, when his supporters realize that even with a President Trump, their homes and families are still domestic war zones, their newspapers’ obituaries continue to fill with the names of people who died too soon, and their faith in the American Dream continues to falter. But it will come, and when it does, I hope Americans cast their gaze to those with the most power to address so many of these problems: each other. And then, perhaps the nation will trade the quick high of “Make America Great Again” for real medicine.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opioid of the Masses", The Atlantic (July 4, 2016)
“President Obama came on the scene right as so many people in my community began to believe that the modern American meritocracy was not built for them. We know we're not doing well. We see it every day: in the obituaries for teenage kids that conspicuously omit the cause of death (reading between the lines: overdose), in the deadbeats we watch our daughters waste their time with. Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren't. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we're lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn't be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it--not because we think she's wrong, but because we know she's right.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it's just a basic fact. If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it? If we want a healthy ruling class in this country, we should invest more, we should vote more, we should support people who actually have kids, because those are the people who actually have a direct stake in the future of the country.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the interview by Tucker Carlson on Fox News at JD Vance: The US is being run by 'childless cat ladies' (July 29, 2021), as cited in "AOC hits back at JD Vance after he calls her and Pete Buttigieg 'childless cat la…
“Do I think that we're in the end times? I don't know. I think that it's probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it. [...] There are things about the world that make me feel not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. [...] I tend to think that while I wouldn't be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now, and that if that leads to the end times, OK. The end times may be coming, in fact they are coming, it's just a question of whether they're coming thousands of years down the road or a few months down the road. ... I'm fascinated by it but I try not to spend too much time on it.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking on the Bryce Crawford podcast "The Antichrist may walk among us, warns JD Vance", The Times (London, September 2, 2026)