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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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.
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It's a real privilege I've discovered comes with having a job like this, ... If you take the time to just spend a full minute with someone rather than five seconds, you've become part of a really memorable experience for them.
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It's not something I'd say never to, ... But at this point, I just don't see it providing meaningful relief -- a few cents a gallon relief that would accrue to the wealthy as well as the less-fortunate.
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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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No, and of course they shouldn't. We just got here, and there's no way to know.
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The retail examples that are confronting us are different, ... They are gigantic boxes that maintain enormous inventories of sporting and other goods.
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Nothing will ever be more confusing than the world we're leaving behind,
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It's what we consider one of a handful of the most important projects. We're going to make it happen as fast as we can.