"Were (the president) to ask for a primer on how to act in relation to other states...and were that primer to be written by the American people, whether of 1776 or 2010, you can be confident that it would contain the following instructions:
"You do not bow to kings. Outside our shores, the President of the United States bows to no man.
When in foreign lands, you do not criticize your own country.
You do not argue the case against the United States, but the case for it.
You do not apologize to the enemies of the Unites States.
Should you be confused, a country, people, or region that harbors, shelters, supports, encourages, or cheers attacks upon our country or the slaughter of our friends and families are enemies of the United States. And, to repeat, you do not apologize to them."
Mike Pence, U. S. Representative, Indiana's 6th Congressional District, in a speech entitled "The Presidency and the Constitution", delivered on the Hillsdale College campus on September 20, 2010.
Published in Imprimis magazine, October 2010
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