Mike Pence

Candidate's Website, 2023

"President Biden’s most egregiously inflationary policy is without question his unsustainable and unnecessary spending binge. ... Vice President Pence is already scouring federal budgets to identify areas where spending can be responsibly cut, and wasteful programs eliminated."

Candidate's Website, 2023

"During the pandemic, the Fed artificially dropped interest rates in order to fulfill their responsibility to promote job growth. Cheaper, more abundant money made it easier for sellers to increase prices and made inflation worse. Now, Chairman Powell is dramatically increasing interest rates to respond to the crisis by making cars and homes more expensive and likely pushing the U.S. economy towards a recession.

"These jarring shifts in Federal Reserve monetary policy send shockwaves through the economy and result in a cycle of recessions and inflation. Instead of focusing on jobs and inflation, the Fed should be solely concerned with keeping interest rates stable and fighting inflation. Fostering American jobs should be up to the policies implemented by the President and Congress."

Candidate's Website, 2023

"Repeal President Biden’s unfair student loan forgiveness scheme that punishes Americans who didn’t go to college, saving $400 billion."

Candidate's Website, 2023

"The first step President Biden took to increase oil and gas prices was to freeze all production leases and permits on federal lands. The results have been disastrous. While Biden’s leasing ban was tied up in federal courts, the number of new permits for drilling plummeted from 4,900 in 2021 to 2,900 in 2022. Simply put, the government is cutting off oil drilling at the time when prices are rising, and American energy leadership is shrinking globally. Just last month Biden submitted rules to increase the fee for drilling royalties for the first time since 1920 and hike production costs by more than 33%. Our competitors are controlling the spigot and setting prices because we refuse to lead the world in oil production. President Pence will not ignore the fact that drilling technology makes it possible for America to lead the world and take advantage of the shale revolution by opening federal lands for leasing."

Other, 2023

"And as we talk about the possibility of national standards, a 15-week standard, which would put America more in line with most of the European Union, most of the European countries have either a 12 to 15- week rule on abortion. Our laws today are more in line with China, Iran, and North Korea. And for my part, if I have the great privilege to serve as president of the United States, I'll support the cause of life at every level, the state level, the local level with taxpayer dollars, and at the national level."

Other, 2023

"I know that some in this debate have called the war in Ukraine a territorial dispute. It's not. It was a Russian invasion, an unprovoked Russian invasion. And I believe the United States of America needs to continue to provide the courageous soldiers in Ukraine with the resources they need to repel that Russian invasion and restore their territorial integrity. We're the leader of the free world. We're the arsenal of democracy."

Other, 2023

"Look, we got to stop putting Band-Aids on the problem. We got to stop having small little fixes and programs. We've got to secure our border. We got to finish that wall. We got to put remain in Mexico policy back into effect, Title 42. We got to end illegal immigration and asylum abuse like we did in our administration, then we got to fix this broken immigration system once and for all."

Other, 2023

"Look, we got to stop putting Band-Aids on the problem. We got to stop having small little fixes and programs. We've got to secure our border. We got to finish that wall. We got to put remain in Mexico policy back into effect, Title 42. We got to end illegal immigration and asylum abuse like we did in our administration, then we got to fix this broken immigration system once and for all."

Other, 2020

"President Trump and I are fighting every day in courthouses to prevent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from changing the rules and creating this universal mail-in voting that'll create a massive opportunity for voter fraud."

Other, 2023

"Let me tell you, I voluntarily left Congress after 12 years because I think two terms in the Senate, six in the House is enough for any American. I support term limits and I always will."

Other, 2023

"I, frankly, think we ought to have voter ID in every state in this country."

Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2021

"Critical Race Theory is nothing more than STATE-SPONSORED RACISM and should be opposed by every American of every race and creed and color in every school in the land!"

Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2020

"If Joe Biden was elected President, his plan for Obamacare would lead us toward socialized medicine. With four more years of President @realDonaldTrump, we’ll have healthcare reform based on freedom and free markets and we’ll give Americans the healthcare reform they deserve."

Other, 2018

Pence was Vice President when then-president Trump proposed raising the legal age to purchase certain firearms. However, Pence was not a vocal supporter of that idea. More recently Pence has said, "We don’t need gun control. We need crime control."

Other, 2023

Pence has not explicitly addressed whether he would support federal legalization of marijuana as president, but he has opposed many legislative efforts that support legalization at the state level. For example, Pence criticized a Covid-19 relief bill by saying, "In the House of Representatives, I heard the other day that the bill that they passed actually mentions marijuana more than it mentions jobs." (The bill included provisions related to banking for marijuana businesses.)

In a 2012 gubernatorial debate he also said, "To be candid with you, growing up in the Hoosier State, I’ve seen too many people become involved with marijuana and have their lives sidetracked as a result."