Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.
— Mike Pence
I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.
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.
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.
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.
We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
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.
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
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.
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.
The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.
I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.
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 grew up with a front row seat to the American dream.
No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.
Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.
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.
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.
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.
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life.
It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.
By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.
And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.
People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.
To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.
In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.
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.
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.
Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.
What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.
Human cloning is coming.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
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.
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.
It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.
The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.
