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
pain real government
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
successful purpose enterprise
Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.
effort favors curry
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
climbing might firsts
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
records knows
My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.
successful self enterprise
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
retirement age certain
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
rewards refrain disgusted
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.
waiting tonight ladders
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
weed real years
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
government dollars three
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
smart choices income
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 of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
accepting haves-and-have-nots nations
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.
hands people political
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 2001, and work on the problem at hand