Vernon Jones

I never got a free ride.

It's very simple to me. President Trump's handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges and his criminal justice initiatives drew me to endorse his campaign.

I've got the courage to express my convictions.

I have personally been subjected to hate speech and threats because of my support for President Trump's reelection.

I've been entrenched in the community.

I can bring people together and work toward a better Georgia.

The left has taken this country too far to the left.

Nobody can touch my record. Nobody can touch my experience.

Nobody can work as hard as I can.

I realized I made some mistakes in the past and I've learned from them.

Abraham Lincoln was controversial. Mahatma Gandhi was controversial. Jesus was controversial. If you call Vernon Jones controversial, then that is a badge of honor.

I have balanced budgets.

I love campaigning.

Kemp abandoned Georgia's conservatives.

When I was growing up in North Carolina, we didn't wear our shoes in the summertime because we were trying to save them. By the time the fall came around, our feet had spread so much from walking around barefooted, the shoes didn't fit anymore.

I take my legislative duties seriously, and I take family emergencies more seriously.

Donald J. Trump is a man's man. He's strong.

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short end of the stick in successive Democratic and Republican administrations - not to join in the social crusades of an over-educated and overwhelmingly liberal elite.

I support Donald Trump because he is objectively better at lifting Black people - and all people - out of poverty and into prosperity and upward mobility than any big-government Democrat has any hope of being.

If MSNBC can get away with casting people like me and Bruce LeVell as paycheck-hungry, desperate sell-outs, then its viewers can go on pretending that Black Trump supporters like us do not exist.

The older Democratic party focused on equality of opportunity, economic growth and targeted tax cuts.

The Clinton Democrats supported hiring more police officers.

I cannot stand for the defunding of the police, higher taxes on working families and job-killing socialist policies that will devastate Americans of all walks of life.

We must work with the law enforcement community to support public safety and the overwhelmingly brave men and women who serve and protect our communities.

A lot of politicians, both Democrats and some Republicans, are interested in going to Washington, D.C. to be a part of the permanent D.C. political class that thumbs its nose at the rest of the country.

I was raised to have a healthy respect for law enforcement, I was raised to have a healthy respect for a hard-earned buck.

Liberal white people do not want blacks thinking for themselves.

Americans are being attacked nationwide because of their party affiliation and political ideology.

Although we didn't have the finer things in life, if we had a pair of shoes on, my mother said make sure they're shiny. If you have a pair of jeans on, make sure they're pressed.

I am a free-thinking, independent, conservative black man. The left-wing of the Democratic Party, they were mortified by that.

Democrats during the days of centrist Georgia senator Sam Nunn focused on a strong United States military.

Democrats once saw America as a force for good in the world.

I was elected in Georgia as a Democrat in three separate decades. I don't support Donald Trump because I've changed my ideas on what's important; I support him precisely because I have not changed.

I can bring over voters from the Democratic Party, those who feel disenfranchised, those who feel the party's out of touch but are afraid to say something because of cancel culture and so many other things.

As a proud graduate of North Carolina Central University, I know how important of a springboard HBCUs are to young black men and women working hard to achieve their own American dreams.

My parents had very limited education, but they instilled an indelible value system in me that laid the foundation for me to be successful.

My fellow Black Americans are expected to fit a certain mold and think a certain way. We've been socially conditioned to blindly support the Democratic Party, never straying from the mental plantation they've had us on for more than a half century.

Black Americans like me are free people with free minds.

We haven't had a president like Trump in my lifetime as far as I'm concerned. He does what he says he's going to do.

Conservative white people, I've found, they want you to think for yourself, they want you to cast down your bucket wherever and go forth chasing the American Dream.

Constitutional Carry, or permit-less carry, simply allows a person who is otherwise legally able to possess and carry a firearm to do so in a discreet, concealed manner.

Many states allow law-abiding gun owners to openly carry a handgun without a government permit. Constitutional Carry gives them the flexibility to put a coat or jacket on over their gun, or place it in a purse for convenience.

The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 would require states to recognize the concealed carry permits of other states, similar to how marriage licenses are recognized. We are a very mobile society and threats to our personal safety don't end at the state line.

I'm a Black MAGA man.

I believe and stand for equality of every citizen, regardless of their race, party, gender or orientation.

Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things.

I don't know what you are unless you tell me what you are if you're gay. When I walk into that room, you can tell that I'm Black.

I'm Black from cradle to grave.

They can actually change. You know you can go from being straight to being gay to being transgender and all these other genders. When you're Black, I don't have a choice.

I supported Donald Trump in 2016, but people laughed at me. No one from the media paid any attention because they didn't think he could win, but he did.