Political Quotes

JD Vance

The Public Record

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

Quotes by year · 2016–20261,128 total · peak 2025 (590)
2016: 5 quotes2019: 9 quotes2020: 26 quotes2021: 76 quotes2022: 127 quotes2023: 202 quotes2024: 73 quotes2025: 590 quotes2026: 20 quotes
Jun 22, 2025

We’re not at war with Iran, we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.

huffpost.com
Jun 22, 2025

What we did is we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program.

huffpost.com
Jun 22, 2025

I really think there are two big questions for the Iranians here.

newsweek.com
Jun 22, 2025

We're at war with Iran's nuclear program.

newsweek.com
Jun 22, 2025

I think our biggest red line is the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

newsweek.com
Jun 22, 2025

We're not at war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program...The operation was really extraordinary.

newsweek.com
Jun 22, 2025

Enriching uranium up to the point of a nuclear weapon — that was what the president put a stop to last night.

cnn.com
Jun 22, 2025

What we know is they no longer have the capacity to turn that stockpile of highly enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium, and that was really the goal here.

cnn.com
Jun 22, 2025

We’re not at war with Iran. We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.

nbcnews.com
Jun 21, 2025

I think these guys, we oughta laugh them out of the building.

huffpost.com
Jun 21, 2025

Anytime we make a mistake we correct that very quickly.

cnn.com
Jun 21, 2025

And I think what the Ninth Circuit said very clearly is when the president makes a determination, you’ve got to send in certain federal officials to protect people.

cnn.com
Jun 21, 2025

That determination was legitimate, and the president’s going to do it again if he has to, but hopefully it won’t be necessary.

cnn.com
Jun 20, 2025

If you enforce your own laws and if you protect federal law enforcement, we're not going to send in the National Guard because it's unnecessary.

cbsnews.com
Jun 20, 2025

I would absolutely say that Gavin Newsom is endangering law enforcement.

cbsnews.com
Jun 20, 2025

I was hoping José Padilla would be here to ask a question. But, unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater, and that’s all it is.

nbcnews.com
Jun 19, 2025

Of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.

thenation.com
Jun 18, 2025

That decision ultimately belongs to the president. But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue.

nbcnews.com
Jun 17, 2025

I can assure you that [the president] is only interested in using the American military to accomplish American people's goals.

cbsnews.com
Jun 17, 2025

I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use.

cbsnews.com
Jun 16, 2025

The refusal by the Fed to cut rates is monetary malpractice.

msnbc.com

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