“Never let it go,” he told Grove City College. “Persistence, men and women. Hold onto your dreams.”

He said he took a circuitous route to entering politics, and rose slowly through the ranks as a politician first in Congress and then as Indiana's governor.

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Speaking to the Christian, non-denominational, liberal arts college in Grove City, Penn., Pence quoted Jeremiah 29:11.

“In all that you do, have faith,” he said.