At an event on Sunday in Massachusetts, former Vice President Mike Pence spoke about the riot at the Capitol on January 6th.
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00:00With some very special people.
00:03First and foremost, my beloved wife and our former Second Lady, Karen Pence.
00:17She's as strong as she is beautiful.
00:20And I've been on Team Karen for 40 years.
00:23And Caroline, I'm grateful that you mentioned that history should record that along with
00:33our daughter, Karen refused to leave the Capitol that day as well.
00:39Thank you for your service to America every day of our lives together.
00:44I love you.
00:49And secondly, to our brave daughter, Charlotte.
00:53And her husband, Navy Lieutenant Henry Bonn.
00:58To our Marine Corps son, Major Michael Pence.
01:02And his wife, Sarah.
01:05To our daughter, Audrey Pence Tominelli.
01:08And her husband, Dan.
01:11Thank you guys for your steadfast love.
01:14And for being at my side every day that we served.
01:18Including that day.
01:23And to our entire family back home in Indiana.
01:31And I remember my late father, a Korean War veteran named Ed Pence.
01:37And to my first generation Irish American mother.
01:41And I remember my father, 92 years young.
01:46Watching at home.
01:52Thanks for teaching me to love this country as much as you do, Mom.
01:56I love you.
01:57And to three men who stood by me through that fateful day.
02:07Including my brother, Congressman Greg Pence.
02:12And two remarkably principled men.
02:17Who are joining us here tonight with their spouses.
02:22My former Chief of Staff, Mark Short.
02:25My General Counsel, Greg Jacob.
02:28Stood in the pocket in those fateful days.
02:31And never wavered.
02:32If history remembers any of our service.
02:38I pray history will remember your indispensable counsel and courage.
02:45During those fateful days in the life of our nation.
02:49And finally, I want to thank the people of Indiana and America, not just for the privilege
03:07to serve and for your prayers, but for the words of encouragement over the last four
03:13years in airports and diners, stopping me on the street, people speaking a word of gratitude
03:24from every political background that I've heard over and over again, including through
03:30this special evening.
03:33Thank you all.
03:34It was my great honor to serve you.
03:43Every public servant in America takes the same oath.
03:49Place your hand on a Bible, raise your right hand.
03:56And you swear that you'll support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
04:01all enemies, foreign and domestic.
04:05You bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
04:07You take the obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
04:11And you pledge to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which you're about
04:18to enter.
04:22And it ends with a prayer.
04:25So help me God.
04:31My Marine Corps son once reminded me, Dad, you took the same oath I took.
04:38I love that he said.
04:39I will do it.
04:42If someone else matters.
04:42January 6th was a tragic day.
04:46But it became a triumph of freedom.
04:50And history will record that our institutions held.
04:52When, after law enforcement secured the capitol, leaders in both chambers, in both political
05:01parties, reconvened the very same day and finished democracy's work under the Constitution.
05:14Winston Churchill once said, when great forces are on the move in the world, we learn that
05:19we are spirits, not animals.
05:21There's something going on in time and space and beyond time and space, which whether we
05:26like it or not spells duty.
05:32Our institutions held that day not because of any one person, but because leaders in both
05:38political parties, Republicans and Democrats, did their duty.
05:45So I came tonight to give credit where credit is due.