“Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my ...” — J. D. Vance Quote

Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.

My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.

I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home.

My dad was always a great talker on the microphone, so I tried to learn a lot from him in that way, and he's very old-school. He built the wrestling family that we have.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.