Mike Pence Quotes:

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Topics: Israel, Jerusalem, Rebuilding, Nonsensical, Israeli

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

source: - VP Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 20 July 2016

Topics: Christian, Order, Conservative

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

Topics: Cloning, Amendments, Breakthrough, Human Cloning, Unethical

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

Topics: People, Saving, Social, Savings Accounts

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

Topics: Mean, Reality, Years, Growing Economy

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

source: - "GOP fears government health care 'alligator'". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2009.

Topics: Government, Ducks, Political

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

Topics: Government, Dollars, Care, Takeovers, Government Takeover

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

Topics: Cutting, Reality, Thinking, President Kennedy

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.

Topics: Liberty, Facts, Values

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Topics: Cells, Miracle, Research, Medical Treatment, Stem Cell Research

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

Topics: Safety, Leader, Political

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

Topics: War, Reality, Hiking, Declaration Of War, Capitol Hill

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

Topics: Cutting, Reality, Years

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

Topics: Evil, September 11, Enemy

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Topics: War, Home, Essentials, Patriot Act, Continued Success

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

Topics: Running, Government, Expectations

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad--ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.

source: - Mike Pence's remarks at World Press Freedom Day, May 4, 2009.

Topics: Real, Believe, Home, Role Of Government, Free Press

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

Topics: Way, Election, Republican

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles

Topics: Cells, Miracle, Research

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Topics: Mean, America, Mountain, Burying, Mountain Ranges

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Saving, Social, Taxes, Savings Accounts, Trust Funds

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists

Topics: Years, Law, Track, Patriot Act

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research

Topics: Pro Life, Dollars, Use, Embryos

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth

Topics: Scandal, Teeth, Reform, Mismanagement

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again

Topics: Ships, Conservative

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

Topics: Morning, War, Iraq, Battlefields

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Topics: Vivid, London, Steps

Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.

Topics: Morning, Sight, September 11, Capitol Hill, Sight And Sound

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Republic, Our Actions, India, Republic Day

Human cloning is coming.

Topics: Cloning, Human Cloning, Humans

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Topics: People, Priorities, Majority

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Topics: Real, Believe, Independent

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Topics: Data, Historical, Income

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Topics: People, Way, Firsts, Good Christian

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Air, Flow, Good Intentions, Mesh

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

Topics: Moving, People, Discipline, Family Farms

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Party, Fighting, People, Standing Tall, Moral Values

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

Topics: Pregnancy, Government, Years, Payroll, Payroll Tax

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

Topics: People, Style, Indiana

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

source: - Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

Topics: Wall, Drug, Bills, Entitlement Programs, Prescription Drugs

In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

Topics: Average, Cost, Care, Affordable Care Act

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

Topics: Children, Wall, White, Prescription Drugs, Capitol Hill

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

Topics: Hero, Grateful, Heart, Engraved, Hoosiers

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

Topics: Government, Allies, Principles

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

Topics: White, People, House, Bailouts

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Topics: Country, Science, Cells, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Topics: Limits, States, Founders

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

Topics: Home, Play, Bills

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

Topics: Winning, Iraq, People

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Topics: People, Resources, States

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

Topics: Agreement, Goal, Pieces

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

Topics: Strong, Government, Water, Tall Ships, Uncharted

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Believe, People, Stuff, Old Days

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

source: - Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Topics: People, Speak, Trump

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Long, Ashes, Wade, Roe V Wade

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

source: - Source: www.patheos.com

Topics: Believe, Sea, Views

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 24, 2016

Topics: Vulnerable, Deals, Unborn

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Country, World, Ideals

I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Country, Thinking, Leader

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

source: - "Trump team dodges and ducks". "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

Topics: Want, Path, Clear

Ronald Reagan said a nation without borders is not a nation. Donald Trump is committed to restoring the borders of America.

source: - Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Topics: America, Borders, Trump

I can assure you President Trump and I are completely focused on the issues that matter most to the American people.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: People, President, Focused

There's two ways you can defeat your opponent, number one, is you can defeat 'em outright, or number two, you can just demoralize them.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Two, Numbers, Ems

I think enhanced interrogation saved lives.

source: - "The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

Topics: Thinking, Interrogation, Saved

We welcome the National Rifle Association here to Indianapolis. It's tens of thousands of freedom loving Americans. I was grateful to be able to speak to them and interact with them and I really do believe that the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms makes our communities more safe, not less safe.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Grateful, Believe, Law, Law Abiding Citizen, Indianapolis

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Trying, Littles, Knees

For me it was a calling to public service. I often tell people other than a whole lot of zeros, he and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both [with Donald Trump] have lived it.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Dream, People, Calling

[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Home, Independent, Men, Land Of The Free

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Country, Heart, Exercise

I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. ... The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.

source: - "Mike Pence's New God" by William Saletan, www.slate.com. July 21, 2016.

Topics: Jobs, Believe, Hard Work, Faith And Family, Important Jobs

I have strongly supported the right to keep and bear arms. I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Believe, Hands, Law, Law Abiding Citizen

It's hard for me to believe sometimes that my three kids never met my dad. Because one of the things - one of the real blessings to me is that while my dad left this Earth when I was in my 20s, he's just as much a part of, of my life now than he was then, in terms of I often think of my dad. I think of what my dad might do in a certain situation. And so he continues to be, you know, my hero, my role model.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Dad, Real, Believe

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

source: - "Pence addresses GOP while world watches Tiger" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. February 19, 2010.

Topics: Fighting, Government, Discipline

I think if you're gonna be pro-life, you should be pro adoption.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Thinking, Pro Life, Adoption

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Hands, Law, Usa, Political Correctness

Americans are at war with radical Islamic terrorism. We are at war with the ISIS caliphate, and what we need is a commander-in-chief who knows that, who understands that, who will give our military the resources they need to make that fight, pull our allies together - including moderate Arab nations - and hunt down and destroy ISIS and other terrorist organizations at their source.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Military, War, Islamic, Islamic Terrorism, Commander In Chief

All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Country, President, Needs

My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Christian, Heart, Who I Am

The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Children, Party, Taken, Anathema

Trump is committed to being the president for every American.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: President, Committed

I was raised in a wonderful family of faith. It was church on Sunday morning and grace before dinner, but my Christian faith became real for me when I made a personal decision for Christ when I was a freshman in college, and I've tried to live that out however imperfectly every day of my life since, and with my wife at my side, we've followed a calling in the public service where we've tried to keep faith with values that we cherish.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Christian, Morning, Real, Freshman, Sunday Morning

Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional.

source: - Source: www.buzzfeed.com

Topics: Entering, Offensive, Bans, Unconstitutional

When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Debt, Growing, Economy, National Debt

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Heart, America, Hatred

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: War, Clinton, Not Sure

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: People, Safety, Firsts, Safety And Security

It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm's way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell, said: ''What difference, at this point, does it make?''

source: - Source: www.bostonglobe.com

Topics: Differences, Way, Doe, Benghazi

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

source: - VP Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 20 July 2016

Topics: Home, Indiana, Growing, Balanced Budget, Growing Economy

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly a lack of leadership.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: America, World, Combination, Lack Of Leadership

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

source: - "Mike Pence's New God" by William Saletan, www.slate.com. July 21, 2016.

Topics: Law, Support, Illegal

It's probably why the 330,000 members of the fraternal order of police endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States of America, because they see his commitment to them.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Commitment, Order, America, Fraternal, Law And Order

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Compassion, Principles, Firsts, Sanctity Of Life

When you hear Donald Trump say he wants to make America great again, when we do that I truly do believe the American people are going to be standing taller, they're going to see that real change can happen after decades of just talking about it. And when that happens the American people are going to stand tall, stand together and we'll have the kind of unity that's been missing for way too long.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Real, Believe, Talking

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Tradition, Enjoy, Democratic

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: America, Years, Enemy, Feckless, Half A Year

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Thinking, Saving, Indiana, Savings Accounts

There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Country, Criminals, Violence

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Thinking, People, Important

No path to citizenship. People that want to gain legal status, you heard Donald Trump say again and again, will have to leave the country.

source: - "Trump team dodges and ducks". "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

Topics: Country, People, Want

I and Trump were raised to believe that to whom much is given, much will be required. And so for the president-elect that meant that what - he describes himself this way, the kid from Queens would go to Manhattan Island and build the big buildings.

source: - Source: www.therepublic.com

Topics: Believe, Kids, Building

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

Topics: Law, America, Enforcement

People who have come to the USA legally, who stood in line, who played by the rules, in the Latino and the Hispanic community, just like every other American, long to have a president that says, "We are a nation of laws, and that we're going to uphold and enforce those laws."

source: - Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Topics: Law, Usa, People

I think I've always believed in Ronald Reagan's adage, "Peace through Strength." Let's grow stronger on a transatlantic basis in our economies.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Thinking, Stronger, Economy, Peace Through Strength

Every American, including our president, represents that we uphold the highest ideals of the world.

source: - "Face the Nation transcript February 5, 2017: Pence, Christie". www.cbsnews.com. February 5, 2017.

Topics: President, World, Highest

I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about tolerance in the country today having to do with people on the left. And Indiana steps forward to protect the constitutional rights and privileges of freedom of religion for people of faith and families of faith in our state and this avalanche of intolerance that's been poured on our state is just outrageous.

source: - Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Topics: Country, Mean, People

Donald Trump and I both accept that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: America, United States, Accepting

You couldn't have a more clear choice between Donald Trump and I, who will end illegal immigration in this country, and - and Hillary Clinton, who will pursue more of the same, executive amnesty, open borders, which the American people are sick and tired of.

source: - "Trump team dodges and ducks". "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

Topics: Country, Tired, People

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. And let my say community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state. And we fully support that. Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.

source: - VP debate at Longwood University, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Men, Support, Community, Hispanic, Hoosiers

We are in a struggle against radical Islamic terrorism, al-Qaida and ISIS. The president, in his campaign for office, made it clear that he would make a priority of confronting radical Islamic terrorism abroad. But also adding new measures to ensure that individuals would not be coming into this country with the motivation to harm our people. And we really do believe that this temporary pause with regard to the countries other than Syria, temporary pause where we evaluate our screening process and ensure that people coming into the country don't represent a threat is appropriate.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Country, Motivation, Islamic

If my son or your son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, they'd be court marshaled.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Son, Information, Way, Classified Information

My fellow Republicans, when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America, the change will be huge.

source: - Mike Pence's Speech at the the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. July 21, 2016.

Topics: America, President, United States

I think it's what animates our president-elect [Donald Trump] more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Dream, Thinking, President, Boundless

The American people know that we need - America needs - to be strong for the world to be safe and for the American people to be safe, and that will happen when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Strong, America, People

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are - we're better for it.

source: - "Bill O'Reilly: The vice presidential debate and the election", www.foxnews.com. October 6, 2016.

Topics: People, Together, Culture

We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the administration, to begin to roll back the unconstitutional executive orders and an avalanche of regulations that have been stifling growth and jobs in Indiana and across the economy.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Monday, Jobs, Order, Executive Orders

The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Military, America, United States

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

source: - "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Trying, Dignity, Cherish

President Trump's made it clear that his administration is going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: People, Safety, President, Made It

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Half

I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president, it just tells me this is a great country.

source: - Source: www.therepublic.com

Topics: Dream, Country, Giving Up, Great Country, Small Life

Donald Trump has made an incredible connection with everyday Americans.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Everyday, Connections, Incredibles

Growing up I used to ... one of my heroes growing up was President John F. Kennedy. And I actually have a memory box from when I was a little where I saved articles about President Kennedy. He was a real hero.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Growing Up, Memories, Real, President John F Kennedy, Real Heroes

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Mom, Passion, Involvement

I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration ceremony by my wife and by my children and my daughter-in-law, with family looking on from behind us in the platform and many Hoosiers coming to be out in the crowds, I expect - it's again, it will be very, very humbling.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Daughter, Children, Thinking, Daughter In Law, Inauguration

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Step Up

We want a different type of leadership. We want a different direction for this country. And that's why I truly do believe that Donald Trump will be the president of the United States.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Country, Believe, President

America is less safe today than it was the day that Barack Obama became president of the United States.

source: - "Mike Pence Says Trump Never Said That. Well, He Did" by Tamara Keith, wuwm.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: President, Today, Barack

The American people get to express themselves, and in the ways that they choose. But I have got to tell you, I - this convention, I have sensed a tremendous amount of energy, a tremendous amount of unity, not around the personalities, but around the choice that we face in the fall.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Fall, People, Choices

With regard to Turkey, I have been to Ankara. Turkey is a democracy. We certainly, we certainly, in the future, ought to encourage our ally to live up to their own democratic institutions and their own democratic ideals.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Democracy, Democratic

I would suggest to you, what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement.

source: - "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Support, Stronger, Law Enforcement

I'm going to bring my best efforts and do my very best every day to support our new president's agenda and to hopefully play some small role in making America great again.

source: - Source: www.therepublic.com

Topics: Support, Effort, Hopefully, Small Roles

Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation. While she was secretary of state, the Clinton foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors. Now y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff, foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the American political process.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Husband, Government, Political

Donald Trump is a strong leader.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Strong, Leader, Trump, Strong Leaders

We need new leadership in the USA that will name our enemy.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Names, Usa, Enemy

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Party, Mountain Ranges, Debt, Democratic Party

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

source: - "Donald Trump's News Conference: Full Transcript and Video", www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2017.

Topics: Independent, Responsibility, Long

Our enemies will respond only to American strength.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Enemy, American Strength

The American people are seeing in President Trump a leader who is keeping his word to the American people.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: People, Leader, President

We're different men [with Donald Trump], different life experiences. But I've always been struck by our common heritage. His grandfather immigrated to this country just like my grandfather. His dad was a self-made businessman, who built up a business with his two hands. And my dad followed his dreams to Columbus, Indiana, helped build a small business in that town.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Dream, Country, Dad, Self Made, Different Life

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: People, Needs, Way

The American people expect the president of the United States to be prepared to support action to protect the people of this nation. And I know Donald Trump will.

source: - "The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016..

Topics: People, Support, President

I think the best way that we can bring people together is through change in Washington, D.C.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Together

Russia has a common interest in confronting radical Islamic terrorism and especially ISIS. And if we have opportunities to work together I think President Trump is looking for an opportunity to begin that relationship anew.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Islamic, Opportunity, Thinking, Islamic Terrorism

The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Strong, Children, Exercise

President Trump is going to keep the promises he made to the American people through decisive executive action and through legislation.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: People, Promise, President

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

source: - "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 5, 2017.

Topics: Believe, America, Humankind

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

source: - "For Construction Projects, 'Buying American' Means Higher Costs", kenw.org. February 28, 2017.

Topics: America, Tools, Workers, American Workers

The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Long, Promise, Defense

The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

source: - "Expanding the Debate: Green Ajamu Baraka “Debates” Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 1", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Military, War, Chinese, American Strength, Second World War

The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America - the greatest nation on Earth - just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins - look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

source: - "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Bullying, Strong, Leader, Missile Defense, Dictating

There's simply no question under "The Constitution," and, frankly, under federal law, that the president of the United States has the authority, in the interest of national security, to determine who has the right to come into this country.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Country, Law, President

Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran.

source: - Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Topics: Iran, Rebel, Yemen

Working with President Trump closely and seeing the way he operates as a leader, he's always interested in a broad range of opinions. But make no mistake about it. We want in this administration people that share the president's vision for a safer America. For a stronger America. For a more prosperous America.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Mistake, People, Leader

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Thinking, Government, Media

The truth is you cannot command the respect of the world when you spend years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. Lecturing the American people about the Crusades while refusing to call Islamic extremism by name is an abdication of leadership.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Islamic, Years, Names, Abdication, Lecturing

The American people, I think, are tired of being told. They're tired of being told this is as good as it gets. They're tired of being told, like Ronald Reagan used to say, that little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives better for us than we can plan them for ourselves.

source: - Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Topics: Tired, Thinking, People, Good As It Gets

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Country, Moving, People

Well, everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana, and Columbus will always be home.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Home, People, Grace

He was a combat veteran from Korea, and he was a great father.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Father, Korea, Veteran, Combat Veterans

We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: President, Television, Pope

The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins when the Kim regime announces their willingness to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missiles program and not before.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Peaceful, Desire, President

We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Country, Relief, Small Business

I really couldn't be more excited about the opportunity that we have with the new president to really turn this country around and get the economy moving again and have America standing tall again, home and abroad, to make America great again.

source: - Source: www.therepublic.com

Topics: Country, Moving, Home, Standing Tall

I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: People, Catholic, Grandfather

I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Ukraine

The president-elect has set a very aggressive agenda, and I think that repealing and replacing Obamacare with the kind of health care reform that'll lower the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government will be job one.

source: - Source: www.therepublic.com

Topics: Thinking, Care, Kind, Health Care Reform

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Believe, Servant Leadership, Needed

Donald Trump has made it clear, he wants to make a priority of national security, rebuilding our military, but he wants to do it in a fiscally responsible way.

Topics: Military, Priorities, Want, Made It

When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Opportunity, People, Get Better, Health Plan

We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Party, Mountain Ranges, Choices

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Long, Liberty, Arms

With the rise of ISIS, our alliance with Turkey is more important than ever before, the ability to have access, to move resources into the region and also, most importantly, to engage Turkey fully in the battle against global terrorism, is - about protecting the American people.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Moving, People, Important

Donald Trump wants to make it clear to the American people that, while Hillary Clinton is committed to open borders, and amnesty, and executive amnesty, and more of the same that has really harmed our economy, and, frankly, as he said, with regard to dangerous individuals in this country, has cost American lives. . . .

source: - "Trump team dodges and ducks". "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

Topics: Country, People, Amnesty, American Life

Donald Trump has laid out a priority to remove criminal aliens, remove people who have overstayed their visas. And once we have accomplished all of that, which will strengthen our economy, strengthen the rule of law in this country and make our communities safer once the criminal aliens are out, then we'll deal with those that remain.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Country, Law, People, Visa

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: War, Obamacare, People, Health Care Reform

President Trump is bringing a very candid - and direct type of leadership to the White House. And in conversations with leaders around the world, frankly, I think they all find it very refreshing.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Thinking, White, House

I'm also very pleased at the fact we're well on our way in Indiana to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America. I think if you're going to be pro-life, you should - you should be pro-adoption.

source: - "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Thinking

The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Dad, Church, Influence, Local Church

I do think that part of the reason why [Donald Trump] asked me to run with him and gave me the opportunity to serve with him was informed by my 12 years of experience on Capitol Hill and my years as governor of the State of Indiana.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Running, Opportunity, Thinking, Capitol Hill, Years Of Experience

I support free trade. Donald Trump supports free trade.Trade means jobs. Jobs in the United States, jobs in my home state of Indiana are supported by international exports.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Home, Mean, Support, Free Trade

I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.

source: - Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Topics: Loss, Opportunity, Thinking

I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Country, Strong, Thinking, Nato, Growing Stronger

Trump and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both have lived it. I think it's what animates our president-elect more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream. And, I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both saw it. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

source: - Source: www.therepublic.com

Topics: Dream, Thinking, Belief

I'm very comfortable with the fact that there's only one person in charge of the Trump administration. It's President Donald Trump.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: President

The president made it clear that he expected Congress, while they take action to repeal the most corrosive elements of Obamacare, the taxes, the mandates, things that are suppressing job creation and driving up the premiums for working families across the country.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Country, President, Action

The president made very clear to leaders in Congress from right after the election that repealing and replacing Obamacare will be the first priority of this administration.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Priorities, Leader, President

What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to this country and take American lives, that we are prepared to do what's necessary to gain the information to protect the people of this country.

source: - "The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

Topics: Country, People, Information, American Life

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.

Topics: Politician, Clinton, Trump

Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.

source: - "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

Topics: Thinking, Czech Republic, Joining, Nato

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Russia, Ukraine, Land

Whether it's being repealing or replacing Obamacare, rolling back excessive regulations, making the kind of investments that'll support infrastructure, or reducing taxes and reforming business taxes across the country. That's just a sampling of the things that we're working on right now.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Country, Obamacare, Support, Repealing, Sampling

The president [Donald Trump] said his three-part agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs.

source: - Source: www.dailyjournal.net

Topics: Jobs, President, Three

We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Czech Republic, Defense, Shields, Missile Defense, Czech

The reason the American people don't trust Hillary Clinton is they're looking at the pay to play politics she operated with the Clinton foundation through the private server.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: Play, People, Foundation

When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: African American, Police, Shooting, Involving

[Donald Trump] put this issue at the center of this presidential campaign in the Republican primaries. And his position and his principles have been absolutely consistent. We're going to secure the border. We're going to build a wall, have a physical barrier. We're going to enforce the laws of this country, end sanctuary cities, implement E-Verify.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Country, Wall, Issues, Presidential Campaign

This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.

source: - Source: www.politico.com

Topics: War, Struggle, Obamacare, Challenging Times, American Workers

It's been a long time since NATO was created, and I also think Donald Trump has spoken very wisely about the need to rethink the mission of NATO.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Thinking, Long, Very Wise

I think Donald Trump laid out a series of priorities that doesn't ends with border security. It begins with border security. And after we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement.

source: - Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Wall, Thinking, Priorities, Border Security

I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

source: - "Transcript of the 2016 Debate Between the Running Mates", www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2016.

Topics: Military, Humanitarian, Crisis, American Strength