Mike Pence famous quotes

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

#Israel #Jerusalem #Rebuilding

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

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Cloning #Amendments #Breakthrough

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.
-- Mike Pence

#People #Saving #Social

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Mean #Reality #Years

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

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Government #Dollars #Care

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Cutting #Reality #Thinking

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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Cells #Miracle #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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#War #Reality #Hiking

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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Evil #September 11 #Enemy

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

#War #Home #Essentials

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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Real #Believe #Home

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

#Way #Election #Republican

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Mean #America #Mountain

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
-- Mike Pence

#Saving #Social #Taxes

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
-- Mike Pence

#Years #Law #Track

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
-- Mike Pence

#Pro Life #Dollars #Use

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

#Scandal #Teeth #Reform

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

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Morning #War #Iraq

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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Morning #Sight #September 11

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

#Republic #Our Actions #India

Human cloning is coming.
-- Mike Pence

#Cloning #Human Cloning #Humans

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

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Data #Historical #Income

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

#People #Way #Firsts

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Air #Flow #Good Intentions

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Moving #People #Discipline

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Party #Fighting #People

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

#Pregnancy #Government #Years

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

#People #Style #Indiana

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

#Wall #Drug #Bills

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

#Average #Cost #Care

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Children #Wall #White

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.
-- Mike Pence

#Hero #Grateful #Heart

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.
-- Mike Pence

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#White #People #House

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

#Country #Science #Cells

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

#Limits #States #Founders

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

#Home #Play #Bills

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

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#People #Resources #States

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

#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.
-- Mike Pence

#Strong #Government #Water