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One Of My Earliest Memories Was President [j.f.] Kennedy's Funeral. I Actually Remember Sitting On The Floor In The Living Room Looking At Our Black-and-white Television And Watching The Caisson Roll By And Hearing The Clip-clop Of The Horses. It's Actually One Of My Earliest Memories.

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One Of My Earliest Memories Was President [j.f.] Kennedy's Funeral. I Actually Remember Sitting On The Floor In The Living Room Looking At Our Black-and-white Television And Watching The Caisson Roll By And Hearing The Clip-clop Of The Horses. It's Actually One Of My Earliest Memories.

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

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.

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.

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

Donald Trump Is Going To Speak The Truth To The American People.

The American People Aren't Focused On The Debates Of The Past. They're Focused On Their Future. They're Focused On The Challenges That We're Facing At Home And Abroad.

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.

Community Policing Is A Great Idea. It's Worked In The Hoosier State.

Donald Trump Is More Concerned About The American People, American Citizens, People Who Are Here Legally, People That Are Struggling In This Economy.

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.

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?

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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.

Torture Is Illegal. Torture Is Banned By Various Provisions Of The Law. I Support That.

We Need An Effective American Diplomacy That Will Marshall The Resources Of Nations In The Asian Pacific Rim To Put Pressure On North Korea, On Kim Jong-un, To Abandon His Nuclear Ambitions. It Has To Remain The Policy Of The United States Of America, The Denuclearization Of The Korean Peninsula, Plain And Simple.

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.

As I Travel Around The Country, The American People Are Focused On The Very Same Things That President Trump Is Focused On Every Day. And That Is: How Do We Advance Our National Security? How Do We Make The World A Safer And More Peaceful Place? How Do We Make America More Prosperous? And The President's Gonna Continue To Focus.

It's Important That We Remind The American People Of What They Already Know About Obamacare - That The Promises That Were Made Were All Broken.

I Think I Would Always Tell School Kids That, You Know, They'd Say, "when Did You Get Interested In Politics?" I Said, "just Very Young." Maybe It Was Because President [j.f.] Kennedy Was The First Irish-catholic President."

Our Founders Insisted That Protecting The States' Power To Govern Themselves Was Vital To Limit The Power Of Washington And Preserve Freedom.

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.

Congress Needs To Step Up. Congress Needs To Do Their Job, And Congress Needs To Do Their Job Now.

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

President Trump Is Going To Keep The Promises He Made To The American People Through Decisive Executive Action And Through Legislation.

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 Are Going To Enforce The Law Of America And Strengthen Immigration And Customs Enforcement With More Resources And Personnel To Be Able To Do That, And Then Donald Trump Has Made It Clear. Once We Have Done All Of Those Things, Then We Are Going To Reform The Immigration System That We Have In This Country.

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.

The Focus Of President Trump's Administration Will Continue To Be To Have A Safer America, To Have A More Prosperous America, And To Continue To Advance The President's Agenda, Both On Capitol Hill And Through Executive Action And Carry That Message All Across The Country.

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.

I Truly Do Believe That President Trump Making Decisions To Pause Our Various Immigration Programs And Refugee Programs For A Period Of Time So That We Can Ensure That There Are New Safeguards In Place.

I Would Tell You That For Me The Sanctity Of Life Proceeds Out Of The Belief That Ancient Principle That - Where God Says Before You Were Formed In The Womb, I Knew You, And So For My First Time In Public Life, I Sought To Stand With Great Compassion For The Sanctity Of Life.

I Have Long Been A Supporter Of A Free And Independent Press And I Always Will Be. But With Freedom Comes Responsibility.

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