J. D. Vance Quotes

Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

Bigger Than His Party.

I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican. But Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

Part of the problem is that we don't have enough Democrats that will actually stand toe-to-toe with this bully Donald Trump and fight for the rights and values of this republic.

I think part of the problem that the Republicans have is that the base has, in many cases, certain litmus test issues on which they are black and white on their thinking.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.