I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.
Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality.
It's very, very humbling, and I couldn't be more honored to have the opportunity to run with, and serve with, the next president of the United States.
Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
You shut the door, you tell the boss exactly what you think. But when the door opens, the job of the vice president is to stand right next to the president and implement the policy that he's decided. And I'm prepared to do that.
The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
Regardless of any title I'll ever hold, the most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.
The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.
When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.
There is an enormous amount of evidence that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is doing his best to develop more lethal weapons, and funds and supports terrorism.
If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.
It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.
I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.
We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.
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.
To those who say it would be too difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare, I say it's a two step process. We repeal the Pelosi Congress in 2010 and replace the Obama Administration in 2012.
