Mike Pence Quotes (80 Quotes)

Yesterday, Mr. President, the war had its best night on the network news since the war ended.

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

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

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.

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.

While 16 provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of this year, the threat of terrorism to our families and our cities will not.

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.

As we approached, there was a large column of black smoke billowing from the far end of the base,

It is our sense that the American people want Congress to do something ... to pay for Katrina, and anything less than that will be a disappointment to millions of Americans.

We have to be there for the families and the communities. But we also have an obligation to the rest of the American people and to future generations.

They are adding more to that number every day. Every general I talked to ... was of the mind that we have to bring their army up, have the constitutional reforms, standing up and then drawing down.

I think many conservatives are fundamentally opposed to creating universal drug benefits for seniors that would be the first major new entitlement Congress has created in a generation,

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.

When I was home this weekend, no one I talked to had any interest in talking about who was to blame for Hurricane Katrina. But almost everyone wanted to talk about how we're going to pay for it.

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

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

The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

As a conservative, I believe the only real check on government is a free press, ... And as someone who believes in limited government, I believe nothing is more conservative than promoting and protecting the principle of a free press.

there have been not one but two Supreme Court vacancies.

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.

Don't worry, said Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, a leading House conservative. Cutting taxes for the rich is the best anti-poverty program. I'm mindful of what a pipe fitter once said to President Reagan, ... 'I've never been hired by a poor man.' A growing economy is in the interest of every working American, regardless of their income.

I believe 2006 will be the toughest year for the Republican majority since they came to power in 1994,

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

We simply cannot break the bank of the federal budget, ... This Week.

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.

We're anticipating growing enthusiasm of the American people for offsetting these costs and sharpening our pencils . . . to find these cuts.

These projects will spur economic development and improve the quality of life for thousands of Hoosiers,

The Republican Revolution is back. The American people wanted Washington to pay for Katrina with budget cuts and Washington got the message.

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.

Tonight the Congress will renew our commitment to the principles of fiscal discipline and limited government that minted this majority.

As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life.

Back in Indiana, when a tree falls on your house, first you tend to the wounded, then you start to clean up, and then your family sits down and figures out to pay for it, ... Operation Offset.

It is wrong to raises taxes in the wake of a national disaster and risk a recession.

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

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.

It's simply time we restore fiscal discipline to this process and pay for these expenditures by making choices among competing spending priorities.

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.

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.

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

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.

Now is the time for us to begin to make the tough choices necessary to ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and our grandchildren.

Unfortunately, last year almost a dozen reporters were served or threatened with jail sentences in at least three different federal jurisdictions for refusing to reveal confidential sources,

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.

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.

The American people want us to respond to Katrina with resources and compassion, ... but they want us to respond in a way that maintains our fiscal discipline.

makes a powerful case that Congress should reconsider before we create this massive new government entitlement.

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

Human cloning is coming.

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.