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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We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
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Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
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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.
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Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.
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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.'
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If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
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Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
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He can answer questions and point out how very much better the toll road will be in their hands, and how people's legitimate questions do have good answers.
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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.
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However, I reach today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity,
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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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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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I can only vouch for her character, her personal qualities of compassion and thoughtfulness and intellect, ... My sense is her legal career makes it plain that she would see herself as a judge and not a legislator on the bench, which I personally think is appropriate and important.