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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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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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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We cannot achieve a top-tier economy without a top-tier transportation system, ... To make sure that no Hoosier community is left behind, we must make major moves and bring into being a system of roads, bridges, rail lines, ports and airports second to none.
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The process is to stimulate questions of whether we are aiming high enough, ... I want us to accept the idea that acceptable performance should be nothing less than great.
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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 that the Board of Education ought to revisit this issue,
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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,
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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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If it doesn't look like a solid gold (dollar total), ... then we won't do it.
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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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I would think that humanitarian aid to Americans ought to come right at the top of priority lists, ... I, for one, would support all the aid that makes sense to help these places get back together. And if that means that lesser priorities -- and there are plenty that they spend federal tax dollars on out there (in Washington) -- need to take a back seat for a while, that's probably what they should do.
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We've already broke ground on three new plants and plan several more in the coming years,
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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.