Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr.is an academic administrator and former politician who was Governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. Since 2013, Daniels has been president of Purdue University...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 April 1949
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It does appear that some very serious people are going to give this a very serious look.
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A typical occupant of his office would have said, 'Give 'em everything they want,'
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Everybody wants to find some way to be helpful and there is no state at this point that has stepped forward more boldly than ours, ... That's like Hoosiers.
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The days after that were really the most memorable, I suppose, of my life, because for a short time the nation came together in a way, and its politicians came together in a way, that they just aren't famous for,
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a critical first step in bringing President Bush's budget to fruition. We look forward to working with the Budget Committee and the Congress to make these priorities law.
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The report we've issued this morning confirms that the nation has entered an era of solid surpluses, surpluses on the order of $160 billion, despite an economy that's been weak now for over a year and in decline for that time.
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I've said often that I think the practice is not a good practice. Just because I've changed seats, it hasn't changed my point of view.
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There will definitely be some restraint, and even cuts in terms of government's involvement and subsidy of corporations.
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Revenues, tax payments to the federal government -- which generally rise and fall, historically have risen and fallen with the economy and with economic growth -- have been weaker than we expected. And this is due, apparently, almost entirely, to what I will call stock market-related income,
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These are areas where we are already strong and can bring money into some of the hardest hit areas of the state. We've got to quit treating agriculture as some relic from the past and realize it still has a real economic upside.
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There's a missing 'r' in the critical word 'pantry,' ... I feel it essential to confront this error head on and set the record straight. I have never, in all our years of marriage, come across my wife with cheddar cheese in her pantry without the 'r.'
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If it doesn't look like a solid gold (dollar total), ... then we won't do it.
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I confess I was an original fervent believer in this concept, ... I was sad to see it has been a failure in the state of Indiana.
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I don't want to go around beating up on small business people around Indiana who I think are just scrambling to try to serve their customers, ... If we ever see any credible evidence of somebody abusing the system, then we'll act. But, I've been looking at it every day and the Attorney General doesn't report it and I don't see it.