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Mike Pence

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  1. “Well, I traveled to 35 states in the last year and a half, campaigned for members of the House, Senate, and governors candidates. And the one common denominator that I've observed Is that our candidates that were focused on the future? We're focused on the issues the American people are struggling with today, which are record gasoline prices, 40-year high inflation, a crisis at the border, a crime wave in our major cities, like what the people of Chicago deal with, which grieves my heart. The candidates that were focused on those issues and on solutions. Did quite well”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And the reason my book has been described as one of the most fulsome defenses of the Trump Pence record is because I try and capture both. I try and say, here's what we accomplished for the American people under a gale force wind of opposition from before day one. But I do think right now, I would say to this that That I think that the American people long for leadership that had the potential to unite our country around our highest ideals and reflects the civility and decency that the American people show each other every day. And I think they long for that in both political parties.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “He did. But he said, that's right. It's humbling. And then I said as we walked away back in a stack outside the Oval Office was the newspapers of the day and the top of it was a copy of that day's Washington Post, the headline of which was The Quest to Impeach Donald Trump starts today. And literally, in my experience, and you always talk about the honeymoon, right, when there's a new administration comes in and there's a certain period of time, there was not only not a honeymoon, there was the theories about Russian collusion were being talked about in the weeks before our inauguration. It simply never let up. And so for me, the opposition that we faced by many Democrats, but allies and their allies in the media, and frankly, the president's own pugilistic style really defined that season.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “But inauguration day I was in the Oval Office his first visit there, and my son Michael, the Moraine, was with me, and if you remember his family, and then he and I were walking down the portico, which he walked a thousand times. To the residents. And it was quite a moment, just the two of us walking. We'd been inaugurated that day. We were getting ready to go to the inaugural malls. And he looked up at the side of the White House, all brightly lit, and he said to me, it's. And I said, Is He said, Yeah, that's right. It's humbling. That's”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I must tell you that I think during our administration, civility took a hit on both sides of the aisle. I mean, there's an anecdote. I'm really honored you read the book. I'm grateful. He showed it to me. It's like all Threadbear, the whole thing. Although you can buy it that way, so it looks pre-read. Yeah.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “But also it was a style, and I respected that style. And it came ultimately from my respect for the American people, that the American people had chosen him to be the president, my job in humility, was to simply support him in the presidency that he was elected to advance. And that came from my faith in the American people, and it also came from my faith that Providence guides this nation. And as the Bible says, He raises up leaders and I believe he has in the course of this nation leaders that you've served, leaders that I've served.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Ideals about the country, about limited government, about free market economics, about the ideals and values that I was raised to believe in. And so my question was, if I could help the country go back to the things that I think make America stronger. I was determined to do it. And we ultimately said yes without hesitation to join the ticket. But for me, that sense of calling was my calling was to help President Trump be successful in the presidency that the American people elected him to lead. And that, I think, was both the content that I heartily endorsed about rebuilding our military, reviving the economy with tax cuts, conservatives on our courts.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Look at the time. No, David, look President Trump was not only my president, he was my friend. But we're very different people. I know that many people wondered how someone who had committed their career to civility could partner with someone with a much more confrontational approach to politics. And I accept that. It's a fair question. But it's just because people didn't understand our sense of calling. When I got the phone call, whether I would be willing to be considered to be added to the ticket, it was something Karen and I, as we always do, took to prayer. We talked with our kids about it, and we spent some time with them as a family. But I must tell you with great respect, but the direction the country was headed after eight years of the Obama administration, I thought if eight more years in that direction occurred, that it would take the country into a place that was not consistent with my aspirations.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Without saying. Without saying you're a bad person. And I think that's how the American people conduct themselves on most days. I just think we've got to have government as good as our people again.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “There's a reason why in Congress you have these rules about the way that members address each other. Like my good friend or the gentle lady from Massachusetts. And those are all because civility is where you can create the environment to find common ground. I can say you've got bad ideas, and David, I think you've got a lot of bad ideas.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Catch up with the story. We went down hard head first without a helmet. But we learn. We learned lessons, but I didn't just lose an election as I wrote. I really lost a lot of self-respect because I'd allowed myself to go deep into the whole political realm that you and I see on a regular basis of negative personal attacks. And when the time came back around and Karen and I felt called to pack up our three little kids, move back to our hometown and run for a third time, we just determined to do it in a way that would honor God and that would live up to what our faith required of us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. And I've aspired, however imperfectly to conduct my career that way in various roles. But I do think that democracy depends on heavy doses of civility.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I think that's a very profound question, and it applies to a broad range of issues that we've not been able to solve in this country. And I think it all begins with respect and with civility. I really do. A friend of mine said years ago, he said, there's two kinds of people in politics, people that are called and people that are driven. And as you could read, and so help me God, I've been both. I've let myself and my ambition get ahead of my values and what my faith teaches me the way you treat other people, whether they agree with you on issues or not. But when the opportunity came back around 10 years later and I ran for Congress, you lost a couple of years.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “But I don't think there's any question that we can solve that issue. We can solve other issues, but I do believe it all begins with ending what has been for decades now and has greatly increased is a crisis on our southern border. Five million people coming across the border.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “The Democratic leadership in the Congress didn't make that deal in exchange for funding for the border wall, but it was something that our administration, the president, was prepared to do. And to your point, the people that were brought here as young people, and maybe some people who are here today, through no fault of your own, and I've met young men and women that have put on the uniform of the United States. and earn the citizenship of this country with great distinction. Thank you for mentioning our boy. My unworthy son-in-law is also in the United States Navy.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Well, you know, I was very proud during that government shutdown a couple of years into our administration that we put on the table solving the Dreamer's problem and regularizing the status of dreamers. And I think it's an idea whose time has come. I was disappointed that”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Once we have the border secured, which was the case up until those very same policies were overturned by the Biden administration on day one.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “But I think the key going forward, which we had made great progress on during the Trump-Pence administration, was really securing our border through a combination of efforts. We built hundreds of miles of wall security, internal enforcement, but probably the most significant thing that I do write about in the book was that we negotiated with Mexico historic agreement that people that were applying for asylum in the United States was simply remain in Mexico while their application was being processed. The combination of those things in our first three years reduced illegal immigration and asylum abuse by 90%. And I think, David, I think it created the conditions where had we gotten a second term, we were already laying out the plan.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Well, I think it really all begins with the belief that a nation without borders is not a nation. I don't think that's a Republican view. I think that's the view of...”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “And by that she meant there's a boundless future, that in America anybody can be anybody. It was deeply humbling for me to think of him on that day. And it's one of the reasons, as I write and so Help Me God, that when I was in the Congress of the United States, I was actually chairman of the House Conservative Caucus saying, as you know, David, I weighed in on immigration reform in America. We have a broken immigration system in America, and for the sake of those who've come before, for the sake of those who will come to this country in the years to come, we have to fix this broken immigration system once and for all.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Seeing mom and dad build a small business in a small town in Indiana, I tell people that on inauguration day 2017 when I was looking out across the National Mall and the day I raised my right hand surrounded by my family, I just couldn't help but think of my grandfather. Yeah. I couldn't help but think that he was looking down from glory and he was probably thinking two things. Number one, he was probably very surprised. He knew me pretty well. Michael But all kidding aside, I think he was looking down and saying that he was right, not about me, but about America. Because the legend in my family is that my great-grandmother bought him that one-way ticket on that ship to come to the United States because she said, there's a future there for you.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Well, first, I thought I'd read pretty far down the bio, but I love that we share being second generation Americans because I tell people the American dream is not for me and for my family a bumper sticker. It's what we lived. I mean, that Irishman's brogue still rings in my ears, his belief in this country, seeing my father.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “He drove a bus for 40 years here in Chicago, was one of the proudest men I ever knew. His name was Richard Michael Cauley, and that was how Michael Richard Pence got to be vice president of the United States of America.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “But my parents grew up about, as you said, as a crowflies, about four miles from right here. Mom and dad grew up on the south side of Chicago. My grandfather got off a boat on Ellis Island in 1923 and got on a train and came to Chicago and they grew up in the neighborhoods on the south side. And so every family holiday, every time we would drive up the interstate from that small Indiana town and spend time with our extended family that still calls Chicago home. So it really is our second hometown.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “To be here at the University of Chicago at a legendary institution among students that you had already achieved academic excellence to be able to come here. And so it's an honor to be with each of you and members of the faculty and the leadership. But yeah, this is a little bit of our second hometown when I was growing up. I grew up in a small town in southern Indiana, went to a small college on the Ohio River, went to Indianapolis, met my wife Karen, who is with us today. My wife of 37 years, the former second lady of the United States.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “They were. Well, first, David, I want to thank you. I want to thank the Institute of Politics. I want to congratulate you. I have mixed feelings about the success of your career. But I respect it and I respect the 10 years that you've led the Institute of Politics here. I want to thank you for that.”

    2022-12-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 513 — Mike Pence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source