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Mike Pence, born on June 7, 1959, is an American politician who served as the Governor of Indiana. Known for his conservative stance, Pence advocates for tax cuts, opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. During his tenure as governor, Pence pushed for various policy reforms in Indiana, including educational reforms and tax reductions.

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“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.”

Believe Heart I Believe Proud My Heart Vulnerable Judged Unborn

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“I joined presidential campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Donald Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That's why he won in a landslide election.”

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“Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.”

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“Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.”

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“The truth of the matter is, the policies of this administration, which Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue, have run this economy into a ditch.”

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“Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.”

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“I would suggest to you, what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement.”

Support Stronger Law Enforcement

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“Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.”

Community Law Enforcement Law And Order

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“We have a deportation force. It's called Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. And the union for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the first time in their history endorsed Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States of America.”

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“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.”

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“I think Donald Trump laid out a series of priorities that doesn't ends with border security. It begins with border security. And after we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement.”

Thinking Security Wall Priorities

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“The reality is that there's heartbreak and tragedy that has struck American families because people that came into this country illegally are now involved in criminal enterprise and activity. We don't have the resources or the will to deport them systemically.”

People Country Reality Tragedy Enterprise

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“Donald Trump has said we're going to move immigrants out, people who've overstayed their visas. We're going to enforce the law of this country. We're going to strengthen Immigrations and Customs Enforcements with more resources and more personnel to be able to do that. And then Donald Trump has made it clear, once we've done all of those things, that we're going to reform the immigration system that we have.”

People Country Done Moving Immigration Visa

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“America is less safe today than it was the day that Barack Obama became president of the United States.”

Today President Barack

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

Belief Compassion First Time Ancient Sanctity Of Life

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“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.”

People Today Together Culture

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“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.”

World Goal Achieve Korean

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“The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins when the Kim regime announces their willingness to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missiles program and not before.”

Desire President Program Peaceful Abandon Resolution Willingness North Korea Confrontation

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“The president has wanted to make it clear and he's made it clear that in the event that North Korea takes action that threatens the United States or our allies, that our response will be overwhelming and effective.”

Action President Response Overwhelming North Korea

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“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.”

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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.”

People President Focused

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“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.”

People World Country President Focus Security Focused Peaceful National Security Prosperous

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“The first objective of our national government is to provide for the common defense. And President Donald Trump has no higher priority than the safety and security of the American people. And the possession of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in the hands of a regime that routinely threatens the people of the United States of America and our allies is just simply unacceptable.”

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

Christian Order Republican Conservative

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

People Want Needs Values Fighting Party Moral Clear Movement Willing Return Let Me Traditional Free Market Moral Values Fighting For Freedom

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“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.”

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“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.”

Air Consequence Flow Instruments Intention Confined Good Intentions Mesh

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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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“And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.”

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“Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.”

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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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“Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.”

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“Human cloning is coming.”

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

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

People Different Style Indiana

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“I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.”

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

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

Goal Pieces Agreement Legislation

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“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.”

People States Resources Department Secretary

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“Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.”

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

Play Home Huge Vote Bills Medicare

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

States Limits Preserves Founders

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Government Principles My Friends Conservative Urges Rejects Allies Limited Government

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“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.”

Heart Names Nations Forever Grew Hero Grateful Funeral Shrinks Engraved Hoosiers

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Born: June 7, 1959
Known for: Governor of Indiana
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