“My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of ...” — J. D. Vance Quote

My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

The boos and critical words from sports writers affect pros more than anyone else.

It's nice if I am called a role model, because I never thought that I would be a role model for anyone else.

In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.