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'm just here because I'm hopeful of getting citizens of west-central Indiana and all of Indiana excited about it,
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Courts recognized Mr. Baird as suffering from mental illness at the time he committed the murders, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm recently wrote that Mr. Baird is 'insane in the ordinary sense of the word.' It is difficult to find reasons not to agree, ... However, I reached today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity. To me, it suffices to note that, had the sentence of life without parole been available in 1987, the jury and the State would have imposed it with the support of the victims' families.
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In many ways, I think it's time for Indiana to lead,
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And, the time has come to stop penalizing Indiana businesses through our quirky treatment of time itself. If it were just a matter of the rest of the world's laughing at us, I'd say let them laugh. But the loss of Hoosier jobs and income is no laughing matter.
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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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The state of our state needs serious attention.
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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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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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is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been.
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I am compelled to note that Father Jenkins is off to a somewhat shaky start. He has violated the first rule of all great leaders, which is to never follow a superstar.
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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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Nothing will ever be more confusing than the world we're leaving behind,
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I-69, on the plans we found when we arrived here, wouldn't happen until the mid-2030s and that's just simply unacceptable, ... It's clear to us that it can only happen if it is partially defrayed through tolls.
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Adding these factors together, it is regrettably my conclusion that we are unlikely to return to balance in the federal accounts before possibly fiscal '05. That is, in the next two years things will have to break right for us to do that,