Mike pence quotes

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

Human cloning is coming.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think enhanced interrogation saved lives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Trump is committed to being the president for every American.

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

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

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.

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

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

Donald Trump is a strong leader.

Ronald Reagan said a nation without borders is not a nation. Donald Trump is committed to restoring the borders of this nation and securing our nation, enforcing our laws.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

[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?

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

Our enemies will respond only to American strength.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

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

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

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.

The American people want to see our nation standing tall on the world stage again. They want to see us supporting our military, rebuilding our military, commanding the respect of the world, and they want to see the American economy off to the races again.

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Donald Trump has made an incredible connection with everyday Americans.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.