Karen Pence

“That's really my love, is teaching art to elementary kids.”

“The Pences are a military family.”

“It's always hard to lose. Any time you lose, you think, what could you have done.”

“We want people to know, especially our veterans, that there is help.”

“When I first met Mike Pence, it was love at first sight. On our first date, we went ice skating at the Pepsi Coliseum at the state fairgrounds. We skated around for a little while, then he reached over and took my hand.”

“We know the difference of ambition driving you to run for something and feeling a calling.”

“In retrospect, I look back, and I am so glad that we didn't have our kids when we wanted to have them. The time that they came along was just the right timing.”

“I think that if you have someone who has a certain belief, that doesn't mean that they're necessarily judging you. For example, there are people who have certain dietary restrictions because of their faith. I don't feel like they're judging me if I eat that food.”

“We'll always have some kind of pet.”

“The political world, the political life, is all out there. Our family has to come first.”

“In the Trump administration, we feel it is imperative we support our military spouses and children.”

“Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.”

“It was really a matter of just letting God bring us kids when He was ready to bring us kids, and that's where they come from, and so we just had to wait until He was ready.”

“Because of heroes like Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone, women today, like our daughters, Audrey and Charlotte, and future generations, will have their voices heard and their votes count.”