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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I'm back to make sure the state is doing all it can to begin the process of reconstruction,
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The retail examples that are confronting us are different, ... They are gigantic boxes that maintain enormous inventories of sporting and other goods.
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Nothing will ever be more confusing than the world we're leaving behind,
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By far, the highest percentage tax reduction will go to those working Americans in the lower brackets,
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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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I can only vouch for her character, her personal qualities of compassion and thoughtfulness and intellect, ... My sense is her legal career makes it plain that she would see herself as a judge and not a legislator on the bench, which I personally think is appropriate and important.
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I don't want to go around beating up on small business people around Indiana who I think are just scrambling to try to serve their customers, ... If we ever see any credible evidence of somebody abusing the system, then we'll act. But, I've been looking at it every day and the Attorney General doesn't report it and I don't see it.
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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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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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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 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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Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
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My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.