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 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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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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It does appear that some very serious people are going to give this a very serious look.
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We had more laughs and more fun going through this than I would ever have foreseen. ... Unfortunately, as we just reminded each other, what happens on the road stays on the road.
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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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He can answer questions and point out how very much better the toll road will be in their hands, and how people's legitimate questions do have good answers.
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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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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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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.