Vice Presidents

I mean, we’re really creating a peace plan and an infrastructure here where nothing existed even a week and a day ago.

We don’t want a vassal state and that’s not what Israel is. We don’t want a client state.

I never said it was easy, but what I am is optimistic that the ceasefire is going to hold and that we can actually build a better future in the entire Middle East.

If you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

It’s one thing to read about it, it’s one thing to talk with Jared and Steve on the phone about what’s going on on the ground.

But we’re going to keep on working at this process, and we’re going to keep on trying to bring the deceased hostages home.

But I’m not going to do what the president of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult.

It’s not the end. It is, in fact, exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other.

I want to say that there is this weird attitude I’ve sensed in the American media and the Western media, where there’s almost this desire to root for failure.

Can I say with 100% certainty that it's going to work? No, but you don't do difficult things by only doing what's 100% certain. You do difficult things by trying.

What we’ve seen the past week gives me great optimism the ceasefire is going to hold, and if we get from where we were a week ago to a long-term, durable peace between Israel and Gaza, there are going to be hills and valleys.

Look, I think that we are one week into President Trump's historic peace plan in the Middle East, and things are going frankly better than I expected that they were.

We are in a very good place. We're going to have to keep working on it.

This is not the end.

There are not going to be American boots on the ground in Gaza.

We're not going to force anything on our Israeli friends when it comes to foreign troops on their soil.

If we can’t meet the basic needs of the people, there will be this backlash, which is going to resonate and sound like it is about ‘blame the rich’.

When we made the decision as an administration to put the infrastructure bill and the CHIPS Act first, I actually think that was a mistake.

I write in the book that I thought it was a big mistake to not invite Elon Musk when we did a big EV event.

If we don’t pay our enlisted Marines, every bar in Southern California is going to go out of business, and we don’t want that.

They want to keep the government shut down even though it would mean a lot of you would not get your pay check.

Despite the Schumer shutdown, he is going to do everything he can to make sure you get paid exactly as you deserve.

When officials try to shift focus to mandating diversity quotas or they try to inject partisan politics into the American armed forces, they impede the Marine Corps’s ability to do its best work.

Nobody can replace Charlie, but if we all take little pieces, we can do as much as we can to ensure that Charlie’s mission continues to survive long after he’s gone.