Vernon Jones Quotes

Vernon Jones

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 31, 1960

I was elected in Georgia as a Democrat in three separate decades. I don't support Donald Trump because I've changed my ideas on what's important; I support him precisely because I have not changed.

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I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short end of the stick in successive Democratic and Republican administrations - not to join in the social crusades of an over-educated and overwhelmingly liberal elite.

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I support Donald Trump because he is objectively better at lifting Black people - and all people - out of poverty and into prosperity and upward mobility than any big-government Democrat has any hope of being.

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If MSNBC can get away with casting people like me and Bruce LeVell as paycheck-hungry, desperate sell-outs, then its viewers can go on pretending that Black Trump supporters like us do not exist.

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The older Democratic party focused on equality of opportunity, economic growth and targeted tax cuts.

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Democrats once saw America as a force for good in the world.

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The Clinton Democrats supported hiring more police officers.

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Democrats during the days of centrist Georgia senator Sam Nunn focused on a strong United States military.

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I cannot stand for the defunding of the police, higher taxes on working families and job-killing socialist policies that will devastate Americans of all walks of life.

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We must work with the law enforcement community to support public safety and the overwhelmingly brave men and women who serve and protect our communities.

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A lot of politicians, both Democrats and some Republicans, are interested in going to Washington, D.C. to be a part of the permanent D.C. political class that thumbs its nose at the rest of the country.

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I was raised to have a healthy respect for law enforcement, I was raised to have a healthy respect for a hard-earned buck.

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