Mitch Daniels Quotes

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• We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
• The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero…
• I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.
• Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
• The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in…
• The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle…
• We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that…
• We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the…
• We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
• We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens…
• We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in…
• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate…
• We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave…
• If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow…
• We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and…
• There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.
• I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.
• I took a vow of political celibacy.
• The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition,…

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