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 try to take the same message everywhere I go, ... We're all in this together in Indiana.
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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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A survey shows that nobody would pay a toll to go to Evansville.
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As you know, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provisions require that firms seeking to do business with the government have a satisfactory record of business ethics and integrity. Consideration should be given to the initiation of suspension or debarment proceedings for all, or a part, of Arthur Andersen and Enron as appropriate.
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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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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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And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are in ruin. We have outspent our income year after year.
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[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.
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A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.
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We are a state of people who speak plainly. We are a state of people who get to the point. Let me try to do both this evening, right now.
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I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.
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Yes, we hired an out-of-state firm to run it, but it created 300 jobs in a hard-hit county and saved us $6 million a year we were paying to Kentucky to house our prisoners, ... I have no theological view about privatization, but I believe we should look at competition or contracting when looking at services the government should be providing. What is the most effective way?
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I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
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If they don't act, I would ask the legislature to review it again.