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 stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.
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One thing that came home traveling the state was how frustrated it is, ... People down here felt that Indianapolis didn't pay attention to them. But people in Angola felt the same and in Evansville, too. A large part of my job is to get people feeling they have a larger shared destiny and objectives.
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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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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
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The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.
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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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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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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 think that the Board of Education ought to revisit this issue,
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I said, 'You can't be here having lunch with me, man!' ... But I told him that could be one heck of a story. The kid could be saying later on, 'While I was born, my dad was busy because he was having lunch with the governor.'
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is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been.
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We had more laughs and more fun going through this than I would ever have foreseen. ... Unfortunately, as we just reminded each other, what happens on the road stays on the road.
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It does appear that some very serious people are going to give this a very serious look.
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I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,