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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I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,
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I try to take the same message everywhere I go, ... We're all in this together in Indiana.
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Folks at Treasury believe that some folks will go ahead and pay it (this year) anyway, ... Didn't get the memo, I guess, but that's the answer.
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A straight answer now is that I don't believe it would be a responsible step, ... The state is still coming out of bankruptcy, and it would not provide dramatic relief to any individual.
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The state of our state is far from sound. The state of our state needs serious attention. The foundation is still firm, but major repairs are overdue.
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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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No, and of course they shouldn't. We just got here, and there's no way to know.
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We had more laughs and more fun going through this than I would ever have foreseen. ... Unfortunately, as we just reminded each other, what happens on the road stays on the road.
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We owe it to Hoosier taxpayers to look for every opportunity to save money, ... State government does not need one vehicle for every three employees, or 20 aircraft. These vehicle auctions alone have returned more than $1.5 million to state government, but the greater savings are in operations and maintenance no longer necessary.
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To make the economic impact that I think Indiana's capable of we have to do a lot of things large and small, ... We weren't labeled the Crossroads of America for nothing.
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We found too large a percentage of procurement dollars, especially for professional services, were going out of state, ... We now look not only at value and price but where are the people who will be doing the work.
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We four, we were thrown together for days, and though we had very little sleep, we had more laughs and fun going through this than I'd ever foreseen.
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When you multiply that 43 cents by three meals a day, times 365 days a year for 26,000 prisoners, you're talking about a lot of money, ... I'm just for what works.
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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.