James David Vance becoming JD Vance
„I happen to think your democracies are substantially less brittle than many people apparently fear. And I really do believe that allowing our citizens to speak their mind will make them stronger still.”
„I believe deeply that there is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your very own people.”
„Man kann kein demokratisches Mandat gewinnen, indem man seine Gegner zensiert oder ins Gefängnis wirft, egal ob es sich dabei um den Oppositionsführer, einen bescheidenen Christen, der zu Hause betet, oder einen Journalisten handelt, der versucht, die Nachrichten zu berichten. Ebenso wenig kann man ein demokratisches Mandat gewinnen, indem man seine Wählerschaft bei Fragen wie der, wer Teil unserer gemeinsamen Gesellschaft sein darf, ignoriert.”
„No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants. More and more, all over Europe, [people] are voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration.”
„I’ve heard a lot about what you need to defend yourselves from, and of course that’s important. But what has seemed a little bit less clear to me, is what exactly it is that you’re defending yourselves for.”
„How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?”
„What no democracy—American, German, or European—will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.”
„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. What I worry about is the threat from within: the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values. In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
„Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There is no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t.”
„You can embrace what your people tell you—even when it’s surprising, even when you don’t agree. And if you do so, you can face the future with certainty and with confidence, knowing that the nation stands behind each of you. And that, to me, is the great magic of democracy.”
„I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns, or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections, or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy. Speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference.”
„We must do more than talk about democratic values. We must live them.”
„In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town. And under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square.”
„If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with. To believe in democracy is to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and has a voice. And if we refuse to listen to that voice, even our most successful fights will secure very little.”
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