J. D. Vance Quotes

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

I've said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: Voters crave the anti-status-quo politician. Everything about Donald Trump's campaign, it's avant-garde. He is crushing it in the polls.

Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.

The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.

Voters are saying "I like this guy [Donald Trump]. He just might shake this place up."

A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, 'Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot.'

The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

It is contrary to political precedent for the voters to kick out an administration in time of prosperity.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation.

Having formed this new party for the benefit of deserters from Whiggery, and deserters from Democracy, and having laid down the Abolition platform which I have read, Lincoln now takes his stand and proclaims his Abolition doctrines

Elections are won ... chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.

We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class.