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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The state of our state needs serious attention.
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Businesses pick not just a locality but a state, ... We are not going to give away the state but we are getting positive feed back on our efforts. We want to provide not just incentives but efficiency in the process of getting reviews done and decisions made.
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I'm back to make sure the state is doing all it can to begin the process of reconstruction,
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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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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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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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A straight answer now is that I don't believe it would be a responsible step, ... The state is still coming out of bankruptcy, and it would not provide dramatic relief to any individual.
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The state of our state is far from sound. The state of our state needs serious attention. The foundation is still firm, but major repairs are overdue.
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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,