Mike Pence Quotes

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

Is there decency left in American politics?

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.

Sir, the gentleman soils the spot he stands on.

This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks, not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time in our nation’s history.

Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.

A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your opponent's nose - even in the matter of political rhetoric.

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

Friends, I will disown and repudiate any man of my party who attacks with … vile, foul slander and abuse any opponents of another party.

I don’t think that you have to run down someone’s reputation in order to run for the Presidency.