Mitch Daniels Quotes

• My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

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• I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

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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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• Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

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• A one-time tax does not get figured into people’s investment decisions.

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• There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

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• When they call the slightest spending reductions ‘painful’, we will say ‘If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?’ And ‘If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.’

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• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: ‘Make money. Go make money. That’s the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you’ll have to hire someone else, and you’ll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we’re so proud of.’

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• We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

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• We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we ‘cling’ to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual – we spend less money than we take in.

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• We don’t have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

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• We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

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• We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

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• We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

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• We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

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• We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don’t believe in Americans, who will?

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• We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

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• The state of our state needs serious attention.

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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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• The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: ‘Prove to me why we should.’

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Birth:	7th April, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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