KAKISTOCRACY (noun) — Government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.
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7 quotes from JD Vance
“We have to get the overall numbers way, way down.”
— JD Vance
October 29, 2025   •   At a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi, arguing for reductions in legal immigration.
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“I don’t want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.”
— JD Vance
January 26, 2025   •   On Face the Nation while defending the administration’s refugee and immigration restrictions.
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“We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.”
— JD Vance
July 29, 2021   •   Fox News interview while running for Senate.
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“I don’t like that this is a fact of life.”
— JD Vance
September 5, 2024   •   After the Apalachee High School shooting, while arguing for stronger school security rather than gun restrictions; often shortened online to “a fact of life.”
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“The professors are the enemy.”
— JD Vance
November 2, 2021   •   National Conservatism Conference speech, quoting Richard Nixon.
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“How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
— JD Vance
July 29, 2021   •   Same Fox News interview.
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“I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”
— JD Vance
February 19, 2022   •   Remarks on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast shortly before Russia's full-scale invasion.
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