Top 100 Pence Quotes
#1. I said you [Mike Pence] can't give me this [Purple Heart]. He said, "Mr. Trump you mean so much to me and my family." You know we're doing very well with the veterans. I know you guys do not like to say that.
Donald Trump
#2. In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.
Stephen Inwood
#3. That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't ... it wouldn't.
Ian Watson
#4. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.
C.S. Lewis
#5. Life is pounds, shillings, and pence ... Death is not pounds, shillings, and pence.
Charles Dickens
#6. With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.
David Brooks
#7. British currency was configured in pounds, shillings, and pence. One pound equaled twenty shillings, written as 20 s., which in turn equaled 240 pence, or 240 d. A new pound is equal to 100 pennies, with one penny equal to 2.4 of the obsolete pence.)
Erik Larson
#9. And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence,
Till perjuries are common as bad pence,
While thousands, careless of the damning sin,
Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
William Cowper
#10. A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#11. 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.
Mike Pence
#13. Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
#14. LEONATO O, she tore the letter into a thousand half-pence; railed at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her. 'I measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him, I should.
William Shakespeare
#15. Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.
Julie Anne Long
#16. Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#17. Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.
I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.
A.E. Housman
#18. Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense
Roger Waters
#19. He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
Benjamin Franklin
#20. My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
Gemma Arterton
#21. but I was afraid of spending the few pence I had, and was even more afraid of the vicious looks of the trampers I had met or overtaken. I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and
Charles Dickens
#22. I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
Georgia May Jagger
#23. Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.
Hilaire Belloc
#24. In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
Sue Townsend
#25. The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
[The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
George Herbert
#26. During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
Geraldine McEwan
#27. That'll be a dollar for the drinks," he said, "and five pence because the raven that wasn't here messed in the pickles.
Terry Pratchett
#29. I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
Joseph Addison
#30. My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.
Frank Carson
#31. "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
Lewis Carroll
#33. "What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."
Charles Dickens
#34. Who does not see that ... the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
James Madison
#35. I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#36. This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.
W.H. Davies
#37. We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.
Mike Pence
#38. I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.
Mike Pence
#39. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America, the change will be ... huge.
Mike Pence
#40. Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
Mike Pence
#41. America wins when we trade and export and import.
Mike Pence
#42. 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.
Mike Pence
#43. Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.
Mike Pence
#44. There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.
Mike Pence
#45. 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.
Mike Pence
#46. Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.
Mike Pence
#47. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
Mike Pence
#48. Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.
Mike Pence
#49. 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.
Mike Pence
#50. Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality.
Mike Pence
#51. No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.
Mike Pence
#52. I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.
Mike Pence
#53. We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.
Mike Pence
#54. The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.
Mike Pence
#55. 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.
Mike Pence
#56. The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.
Mike Pence
#57. Donald Trump gets it: he's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.
Mike Pence
#58. It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.
Mike Pence
#59. 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.
Mike Pence
#60. I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically.
Mike Pence
#61. We will win the hearts and minds of the American people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous America.
Mike Pence
#62. I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
Mike Pence
#63. 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.
Mike Pence
#64. 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.
Mike Pence
#65. 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.
Mike Pence
#66. I believe we need to focus first and foremost - as Donald Trump has done with such force and such passion - on border integrity and building the wall.
Mike Pence
#67. I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'
Mike Pence
#68. Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
Mike Pence
#69. I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
Mike Pence
#70. 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.
Mike Pence
#71. It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
Mike Pence
#72. 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.
Mike Pence
#73. In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.
Mike Pence
#74. 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.
Mike Pence
#75. We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information.
Mike Pence
#76. People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.'
Mike Pence
#77. We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.
Mike Pence
#78. 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.
Mike Pence
#79. 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.
Mike Pence
#80. I don't believe Rush Limbaugh has a racist bone in his body.
Mike Pence
#81. I'm grateful to Donald Trump's pro-life views, and I'm grateful that he's expressed those views so publicly and openly.
Mike Pence
#82. The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.
Mike Pence
#83. I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.
Mike Pence
#85. Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.
Mike Pence
#86. Donald Trump understands the anxiety and aspirations of the American people like no leader since Reagan.
Mike Pence
#87. Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.
Mike Pence
#88. Donald Trump will never turn his back on those who serve and protect us at home and abroad.
Mike Pence
#89. When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.
Mike Pence
#91. 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.
Mike Pence
#92. Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.
Mike Pence
#93. 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.
Mike Pence
#94. A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
Mike Pence
#95. Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.
Mike Pence
#96. I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.
Mike Pence
#97. 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.
Mike Pence
#98. 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.
Mike Pence
#99. If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.
Mike Pence
#100. I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life.
Mike Pence
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