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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

The U.S. sending troops to Ukraine is 'on the table' if Russia does not negotiate a peace agreement in good faith.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

We want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

We don't have to agree with everything or anything that people say, but when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

A democracy could not survive by dismissing voters’ concerns as invalid or unworthy of even being considered.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you, nor for that matter is there anything you can do for the American people.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 14, 2025

The U.S. sending troops to Ukraine is on the table if Russia does not negotiate a peace agreement in good faith.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

Unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Feb 13, 2025

To protect and defend all of us, including those of different colors, creeds, and orientations.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Feb 13, 2025

You have to protect and defend all of us, including those of different colors, creeds, and orientations.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Feb 13, 2025

The first Trump administration faced more nationwide injunctions than the first 40 American presidents combined.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

That's all I'm going to say for now, because I want to preserve the optionality here for the negotiators.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

We want the war to come to a close. We want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Feb 13, 2025

At the end of the show, the cast addressed Pence directly from the stage, calling on him to protect and defend 'all of us.'

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

We want the war to come to a close.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Feb 13, 2025

What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.

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