J. D. Vance Quotes

J. D. Vance

Profession : Author

Birth : August 2, 1984

My grandma - we called her Mamaw - loved her country.

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I am proud of my service and proud of those who served alongside me. But war is about more than service and sacrifice - it's about winning.

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Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P. candidates won't reflects what people like most about him: his complete break with the party elite.

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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 a sustained religious community - that I first saw people of different races and classes worshiping together.

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The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

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It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

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I'm a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.

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There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most folks realize I wrote this book not to disparage the hometown but to really try to understand why so many kids who grew up like I did struggled.

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Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.

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The factories that moved overseas used to provide not just high-paying jobs but also a sense of purpose and community.

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What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

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

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From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale, from other places, people have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that social capital gap that it was pretty obvious, apparently, that I had.

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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 loving home.

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When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'

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One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.

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I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

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I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I'm not a good Christian.'

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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 white working class.

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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 go where jobs are.

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