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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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,
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Those are not particularly the ones we're looking at here, but we have to be careful with duplication of that kind.
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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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I am honored to be summoned to service by President-elect Bush and look forward to joining him in making bipartisan progress on the issues important to Americans. The federal surplus is a hard-earned accomplishment that belongs to the American people, and I am pleased to help the president-elect ensure that it is used for responsible goals.
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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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If they don't act, I would ask the legislature to review it again.
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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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We four, we were thrown together for days, and though we had very little sleep, we had more laughs and fun going through this than I'd ever foreseen.
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We found too large a percentage of procurement dollars, especially for professional services, were going out of state, ... We now look not only at value and price but where are the people who will be doing the work.
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We have 50 programs for the homeless sprawling across eight departments of government, ... Late Edition.
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When you multiply that 43 cents by three meals a day, times 365 days a year for 26,000 prisoners, you're talking about a lot of money, ... I'm just for what works.
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To make the economic impact that I think Indiana's capable of we have to do a lot of things large and small, ... We weren't labeled the Crossroads of America for nothing.
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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?