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The American People, I Think, Are Tired Of Being Told. They're Tired Of Being Told This Is As Good As It Gets. They're Tired Of Being Told, Like Ronald Reagan Used To Say, That Little Intellectual Elite In A Far Distant Capital Can Plan Our Lives Better For Us Than We Can Plan Them For Ourselves.

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The American People, I Think, Are Tired Of Being Told. They're Tired Of Being Told This Is As Good As It Gets. They're Tired Of Being Told, Like Ronald Reagan Used To Say, That Little Intellectual Elite In A Far Distant Capital Can Plan Our Lives Better For Us Than We Can Plan Them For Ourselves.

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Donald Trump Understands The Frustrations And The Hopes Of The American People.

[donald Trump] Put This Issue At The Center Of This Presidential Campaign In The Republican Primaries. And His Position And His Principles Have Been Absolutely Consistent. We're Going To Secure The Border. We're Going To Build A Wall, Have A Physical Barrier. We're Going To Enforce The Laws Of This Country, End Sanctuary Cities, Implement E-verify.

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

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Comments That Suggest That Muslims Should Be Banned From The United States Are Offensive And Unconstitutional.

Calls To Ban Muslims From Entering The Us Are Offensive And Unconstitutional.

There Will Be A Focus On Infrastructure. The American People Had Elected A Builder To Be President Of The United States. We're Going To Work With Members Of Congress To Move Forward Legislation To Fund Our Infrastructure More Effectively In The Country.

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

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.

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.

Human Cloning Is Coming.

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

The Russians And The Chinese Have Been Making Enormous Investments In The Military. We Have The Smallest Navy Since 1916. We Have The Lowest Number Of Troops Since The End Of The Second World War. We've Got To Work With Congress, And Donald Trump Will, To Rebuild Our Military And Project American Strength In The World.

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.

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.

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

We've Seen An Economy Stifled By More Taxes, More Regulation, A War On Coal And A Failing Health Care Reform Come To Be Known As Obamacare And The American People Know That We Need To Make A Change.

At A Time Of Great Challenge In The Life Of America, Where We've Weakened America's Place In The World, Stifled America's Economy, The Campaign Of Hillary Clinton And Tim Kaine Has Been An Avalanche Of Insults.

I Think The Best Way That We Can Bring People Together Is Through Change In Washington, D.c.

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.

It Is A Rare Piece Of Legislation Indeed Where There Is So Much Agreement About The Goals.

I've Had More Than A Few Battles With A Republican President. ... I Am Not Immune [to] Disagreeing With People Who Otherwise I Support.

My Late Father Used To Say That They Started Out Without Two Nickles To Rub Together And Lived In That Little House In Everroad Park West.

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.

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.

Enhanced Interrogation Gleaned Information That Saved American Lives And - I Was Informed - Prevented Incoming Terrorist Attacks On This Country From Being Successful.

My Christian Faith Is At The Very Heart Of Who I Am.

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.

We Like To Say We're In The Promise Keeping Business. And Literally From The First Day Of This Administration We've Been Working To Put Into Effect The Policies That The President Campaigned On, And That We Really Do Believe Will Strengthen America At Home And Abroad.

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.

Donald Trump And I Both Accept That Barack Obama Was Born In The United States Of America.

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.

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.

I Worked When I Was Congress On A Second Chance Act. We Have Got To Do A Better Job Recognizing And Correcting The Errors In The System That Do Reflect On Institutional Bias In Criminal Justice. But What - What - What Donald Trump And I Are Saying Is Let's Not Have The Reflex Of Assuming The Worst Of Men And Women In Law Enforcement. We Truly Do Believe That Law Enforcement Is Not A Force For Racism Or Division In Our Country.

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

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.

It's Been A Long Time Since Nato Was Created, And I Also Think Donald Trump Has Spoken Very Wisely About The Need To Rethink The Mission Of Nato.

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

The United States Of America Should Be Prepared To Use Military Force To Strike Military Targets Of The Assad Regime.

We Have Got To Do A Better Job Recognizing And Correcting The Errors In The System That Do Reflect An Institutional Bias In Criminal Justice, But What Donald Trump And I Are Saying Is Let's Not Have The Reflex Of Assuming The Worst Of Men And Women In Law Enforcement.

I Couldn't Be More Proud To Be Standing With Donald Trump, Who Is Standing For The Right To Life.

I Opposed The Medicare Prescription Drug Entitlement. I Opposed The Wall Street Bailout. I Opposed The Stimulus Bill.

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.

We Have Got To Bring Together The Best Resources In America To Understand That Cyber Warfare Is The New Warfare Of The Asymmetrical Enemies That We Face In This Country.

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.

A Society Can Be Judged By How It Deals With Its Most Vulnerable, The Aged, The Infirm, The Disabled, And The Unborn. I Believe It With All My Heart. And I Couldn't Be More Proud To Be Standing With A Pro-life Candidate In Donald Trump.

We've Just Got To Have American Strength On The World Stage. When Donald Trump Becomes President Of The United States, The Russians And Other Countries In The World Will Know They're Dealing With A Strong American President.

Our Primary Threat Today Is Isis. And Because Hillary Clinton Failed To Renegotiate A Status Of Forces Agreement That Would Have Allowed Some American Combat Troops To Remain In Iraq And Secure The Hard Fought Gains The American Soldier Had Won By 2009, Isis Was Able To Be Literally Conjured Up Out Of The Desert, And It's Overrun Vast Areas That The American Soldier Had Won In Operation Iraqi Freedom.

We Will Have A Mechanism For Dealing With People In This Country That - You Heard The Word Humanely Again. It Is Going To Be Fair. It Is Going To Be Tough. But There Will Be No Path To Legalization, No Path To Citizenship Unless People Leave The Country.

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

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.

Black And White

Ronald Reagan Said A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation. Donald Trump Is Committed To Restoring The Borders Of America.

Having Been A Governor And Now Having The Privilege To Serve As Vice President, It Heartens Me To Know The Passion That President Trump Has For Ensuring Our System Of Immigration, The Way People Come Into This Country Is Operated In A Way That Puts Safety And Security And The Well-being Of Every American, Regardless Of Their Race Or Creed, First And Foremost.

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.

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.

I Think It Comes From The Fact That We Both Grew Up In It, And Both [me And Donald Trump] Saw American Dream. And In Our Own Ways, We Both Lived It.

The President [donald Trump] Said His Three-part Agenda Is Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

What You Have In President Trump Is Someone Who Is Willing To, And Is, In Fact, Engaging The World, Including Russia, And Saying, Where Can We Find Common Interests That Will Advance The Security Of The American People, The Peace And Prosperity Of The World? And He Is Determined To Come At That In A New And Renewed Way.

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.

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.

I Think Abraham Lincoln Said Believe Nothing Of What You Hear And Only Half Of What You See.

The Number One Priority Of President Trump Is To Rebuild Our Military, To Restore The Arsenal Of Democracy.

I Think Enhanced Interrogation Saved Lives.

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.

Let's Win The Peace And Democracy The Good People Of Iraq So Richly Deserve After Decades Of Tyranny.

Our Enemies Will Respond Only To American Strength.

American Strength

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.

It's Time To Save The U.n. From Its Own Scandals And Mismanagement. It's Time For U.n. Reform With Teeth.

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.

[donald Trump] Has Said That Very Consistently [about Border], The Contrast With Hillary Clinton, Who Supports Amnesty, Open Borders, Who Wants To Implement Executive Amnesty Again On Day One, Even Though The Supreme Court Of The United States Rejected It, And Hillary Clinton, Who Wants To Increase Refugees From The Terrorist-torn Country Of Syria By 550 Percent.

Donald Trump Has Built A Business Through Hard Times And Through Good Times. He's Brought An Extraordinary Business Acumen, He's Employed Tens Of Thousands Of People In America.

[donald Trump] Is A Man Known For A Large Personality, A Colorful Style And Lots Of Charisma. And So I Guess He Was Just Looking For Some Balance On The Ticket.

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.

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.

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.

Good Intentions

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

We Really Think Health Savings Accounts Were Kind Of Invented In Indiana.

In Fact, In Indiana We Suspended The Syrian Refugee Program In The Wake Of The Terrorist Attack. We Have No Higher Priority Than The Safety And Security Of The People Of This Country, And Donald Trump Is Right To Articulate That View.

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