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JD Vance

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50th Vice President of the United States in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Ohio.

Quotes by year · 201620261,146 total · peak 2025 (590)
2016: 5 quotes2019: 9 quotes2020: 26 quotes2021: 76 quotes2022: 127 quotes2023: 220 quotes2024: 73 quotes2025: 590 quotes2026: 20 quotes

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May 27, 2026

The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety.

JD Vance

May 27, 2026

I’m sure it will contain a lot of insights, some of which I’ll probably agree with, some of which I may not, but I think that it’s going to be a very, very important document.

foreignpolicy.com
Mar 8, 2026

There's just no way that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict with no clear end in sight and no clear objective. What is different about President Trump, and it's frankly different about both…

abcnews.com
Mar 8, 2026

The president's told his entire senior team that we should be trying to cut a deal that ensures the Iranians don't have a nuclear weapon. But if we can't cut that deal, then there's another option on the table. So, I think the president's…

abcnews.com
Mar 8, 2026

Well, I mean, a couple of principles, right? So, obviously, you know, Israel has the right to defend itself, but America's interest is sometimes going to be distinct, like sometimes we're gonna have overlapping interests, and sometimes…

abcnews.com
Mar 8, 2026

He's defined that objective as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long-term to never trying to rebuild the nuclear capability. It's pretty clear. It's pretty simple, and I think that means that we're not going to get into…

abcnews.com
Feb 17, 2026

In some ways, it went well.

apnews.com
Feb 17, 2026

I certainly think that somebody who grew up in the United States of America, who benefited from our education system, from the freedoms and liberties that make this country a great place, I would hope that they want to compete with the…

usatoday.com
Feb 17, 2026

I have no idea what her status should be.

usatoday.com
Feb 17, 2026

You're not there to pop off about politics.

usatoday.com
Feb 11, 2026

I think the media made much ado about nothing with the fact that, yes, in a crowd of 30,000 people, there were certainly some people who disagreed with my policies or the policies of the administration.

usatoday.com
Jan 10, 2026

It’s not going to change anything about how we conduct foreign policy over the next couple of weeks or the next couple of months.

cnn.com
Jan 10, 2026

as the president I believe himself has already said, every president, Democrat or Republican, believes the War Powers Act is fundamentally a fake and unconstitutional law.

nytimes.com
Jan 10, 2026

I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously.

abcnews.go.com
Jan 10, 2026

You can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making.

latimes.com
Jan 10, 2026

No. 1, Greenland is really important, not just to America's missile defense, but to the world's missile defense.

abcnews.go.com
Jan 10, 2026

I think for congressional Democrats, in particular, if they want to talk about affordability, they ought to look in the mirror.

latimes.com
Jan 10, 2026

you can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making.

cnn.com
Jan 10, 2026

You love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country.

slate.com
Dec 27, 2025

The most significant single thing you could do to eliminate antisemitism and any other kind of ethnic hatred is to support our efforts to lower immigration and promote assimilation.

politico.com
Dec 27, 2025

It’s simple economics. If you have fewer people, fewer illegal aliens trying to buy homes, that means American citizens are going to finally be able to afford a home again.

politico.com
Dec 27, 2025

Why did housing get so expensive, double in price during the Biden administration? It’s because Joe Biden let in 20 million illegal immigrants who took homes that ought by right go to American citizens.

politico.com
Nov 29, 2025

We need to lean into this new coalition, do a better job serving them, and that's how we get them to show in these midterm elections, so that we can win.

usatoday.com
Nov 29, 2025

I think that's one of the lessons that we learned in Virginia and New Jersey ‒ is that when Donald Trump is not on the ballot, you've got to give people something to actually believe in, something to be inspired by, to get out there and…

usatoday.com

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