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I Think The Relationships That We [with Donald Trump] Developed On Capitol Hill Are The Reason Why He's Asked Me To Be A Part Of The Team That's Working To Move Our Agenda Forward In The House And In The Senate.

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I Think The Relationships That We [with Donald Trump] Developed On Capitol Hill Are The Reason Why He's Asked Me To Be A Part Of The Team That's Working To Move Our Agenda Forward In The House And In The Senate.

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I Can Assure You President Trump And I Are Completely Focused On The Issues That Matter Most To The American People.

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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.

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A Republic - If You Can Keep It - Is About Limitation, And For Good Reason, Because We Are Mortal And Our Actions Are Imperfect.

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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.

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Trump Is Committed To Being The President For Every American.

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The United States Of America Needs To Begin To Exercise Strong Leadership To Protect The Vulnerable Citizens And Over 100,000 Children In Aleppo.

For A Guy That Grew Up On 31st Street And Everroad Park West And Played On Haw Creek And Dreamed Some Day Of Serving In Washington D.c., From My Boyhood, To Have The Opportunity To Have Represented My Hometown In Our Nation's Capital, And Now To Have The Opportunity To Serve The Entire Nation As Vice President Is ... It's Just Deeply Humbling.

I'm A Small Town Boy From A Place Not Too Different From Farmville. I Grew Up With A Corn Field In My Backyard. My Grandfather Had Emigrated To This Country When He Was About My Son's Age. My Mom And Dad Built Everything That Matters In A Small Town In Southern Indiana. They Built A Family And A Good Name And A Business, And They Raised A Family.

When Donald Trump Does His Talking, He - He Doesn't Tiptoe Around The Thousand New Rules Of Political Correctness.

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.

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.

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.

I Think The Generosity Of President Trump's Spirit, Recognizing That In The Patriot's Heart, There's No Room For Prejudice Is Part Of Who This President Is.

I Never Thought I'd Live To See The Day That An American Administration Would Denounce The State Of Israel For Rebuilding Jerusalem.

Seven Out Of 10 Americans Know The Country's Headed In The Wrong Direction, That In A Very Real Sense That This Is A Clear Choice Between Change In The Status Quo And I've Always Been Telling Crowds, The Other Side Says If You Like Your Status Quo You Can Keep It.

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.

Whether It's Called 'compassionate Conservatism' Or 'big Government Republicanism,' After Years Of Record Increases In Federal Spending, More Government Is Now The Accepted Republican Philosophy In Washington.

People Need To Understand, We Can Come Together As A Nation; We Can Create A Culture Of Life.

Then By The Springtime, You'll See Us Moving An Effort To Cut Taxes For Working Families, Small Businesses And Family Farms To Reform Our Business Taxes In This Country So That American Businesses Can Compete More Effectively With Businesses Around The World.

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.

This Grandson Of An Irish Immigrant, After Whom I Was Named, Richard Michael Cawley Is My Grandfather. I Was Right That - And 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 [donald Trump], It Just Tells Me This Is A Great Country. My Grandfather Was Right.

I Have A Sense Of This Man [donald Trump]. I Have A Sense Of His Heart.

Everything I Am, Everything I'll Ever Be, I Owe To My Family, To God's Grace And To The People Of Indiana.

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.

The State Of Indiana Has Also Sought To Make Sure We Expand Alternatives In Healthcare Counseling For Women, Non-abortion Alternatives, And I'm Also Very Pleased Into The Fact We're Well On Our Way To Becoming The Most Pro-adoption State In America.

I Think Donald Trump Always Speaks Straight From His Mind And Straight From His Heart.

It's Time For Us To Come Together, Time For Us To Come Together Around This Good Man [donald Trump].

I Think Donald Trump Knows The Kind Of Leadership That We [americans] Need At Home And Abroad.

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.

Nobody Was Talking About Illegal Immigration When Donald Trump Entered This Campaign. He Was Attacked From Day One For Putting The Whole Issue Of The Violence That Is Derived From Certain Individuals That Come Into This Country Illegally On The Table. . . He Is Hearing From All Sides. But I Promise You, He Is A Decisive Leader. He Will Stand On The Principles That Have Underpinned His Commitment To End Illegal Immigration In This Country. And That's What People Will Learn More About In The Days Ahead.

Law Enforcement In America Is A Force For Good.

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.

I Probably Got From My Mom A Passion For Public Policy And And Civic Involvement.

My Votes Against The Education Bill And My Votes Against The Medicare Bill Got Huge Play At Home.

The Entire World Has One Goal, And That Is The Denuclearization Of The Korean Peninsula, We Want To Achieve That Peaceably, But All Options Are On The Table.

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.

I'm Going To Bring My Best Efforts And Do My Very Best Every Day To Support Our New President's [donald Trump] Agenda And To Hopefully Play Some Small Role In Making America Great Again.

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.

The Fact That I'd Gone Through My Own Transition As Governor Of Indiana And Had Been Informed By That Experience, I Think Was An Asset.

What Donald Trump Is Determined To Do, As Someone Who Has Spent A Lifetime Looking For Deals, Is To See If We Can Have A New Relationship With Russia And Other Countries That Advances The Interests Of America First And The Peace And Security Of The World.

New Relationship

America Is Less Safe Today Than It Was The Day That Barack Obama Became President Of The United States. It's Absolutely Inarguable.

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.

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.

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.

The Trump Foundation Is A Private-family Foundation. They Give Virtually Every Cent In The Trump Foundation To Charitable Causes.

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.

There Are So Many Families Around The Country That Can't Have Children. We Can Improve Options So Families Can Have Children, Can Adopt More Readily Those Children.

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.

Trump's Vision For America Parallels Greatly With The Vision That Ronald Reagan Used And He Implemented To Revive The Country During A Very Similar Time Where We Had A President Who Told Us That We Were In A Time Of Malaise In The American Economy And That Things Are Just Gonna Be That Way For A While. Reagan Steps Up In That Great First Inaugural Address And Says, "and Why Shouldn't We Dream Great Dreams? After All, We're Americans." And The American People Came Roaring Back, The American Economy Came Back.

We're Going To Rebuild America With American Workers And American Tools.

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.

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 Ceasefire While Vladimir Putin Puts A Missile Defense System In Syria While He Marshals The Forces And Begin - Look, We Have Got To Begin To Lean Into This With Strong, Broad-shouldered American Leadership.

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.

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.

I Never Imagined, Never Imagined I Would Have The Opportunity To Be Governor Of The State That I Love.

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.

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.

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.

You Either Choose To View America As The Shining City On The Hill That Inspires The Best In All Mankind, Or You Don't.

Donald Trump Is Going To Focus - I Know The Media Wants To Focus On That One Issue. Donald Trump Will Articulate A Policy About How We Deal With That Population

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.

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.

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Look The, The American Worker Has Been Losing - For Decades Now. We've Seen Manufacturing In Decline Here In The Industrial Midwest.

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.

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.

The Choice Couldn't Be More Clear For The American People. Donald Trump Has Been Completely Consistent In His Positions.

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.

I Long For The Day That "roe V. Wade" Is Sent To The Ash Heap Of History.

It's Time For Conservative Americans To Right The Ship Again.

Donald Trump Has Made An Incredible Connection With Everyday Americans.

If I'm Vice President Of The United States And Donald Trump Is President, We're Going To Put The Safety And Security Of The American People First.

He Was A Combat Veteran From Korea, And He Was A Great Father.

I Recognize Primaries Are Difficult Things. We Had A Field Of Outstanding Candidates. And Primaries Get A Little Bit Rough. And It Takes Some Time For People To Get Beyond Those Things.

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.

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.

General [michael] Flynn Has Been In Touch With Diplomatic Leaders, Security Leaders In Some 30 Countries. That's Exactly What The Incoming National Security Advisor Should Do.

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 Think President Trump Made His View Of The Iran Deal Very Clear Before United Nations General Assembly, He Considers It Nothing Short Of An Embarrassment. The Simple Truth Is That Transferring $1.7 Billion In Cash To The Leading State Sponsor Of Terrorism Was A Terrible Idea. There Is Technical Compliance And Then There's The Spirit Of The Agreement.

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. We Can - Like Mother Teresa Said At That Famous National Prayer Breakfast Bring The - Let's Welcome The Children Into Our World. There Are So Many Families Around The Country Who Can't Have Children. We Could Improve Adoption So That Families That Can't Have Children Can Adopt More Readily Those Children From Crisis Pregnancies.

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.

We've Weakened America's Place In The World. It's Been A Combination Of Factors, But Mostly A Lack Of Leadership.

I've Asked Justice Clarence Thomas To Administer The Oath Of Office, Which I'm Incredibly Honored That He Accepted As He's In His 25th Year On The Supreme Court And Has Developed An Extraordinary Judicial Record.

I Think The Relationships That We [with Donald Trump] Developed On Capitol Hill Are The Reason Why He's Asked Me To Be A Part Of The Team That's Working To Move Our Agenda Forward In The House And In The Senate.

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