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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If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
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Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
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If you've walked the ground down there as I have many times, you see the economic potential of that corner of the state is really terrific, ... This one project alone will have one of the highest returns of all the major moves we're suggesting.
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And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are in ruin. We have outspent our income year after year.
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These are areas where we are already strong and can bring money into some of the hardest hit areas of the state. We've got to quit treating agriculture as some relic from the past and realize it still has a real economic upside.
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The days after that were really the most memorable, I suppose, of my life, because for a short time the nation came together in a way, and its politicians came together in a way, that they just aren't famous for,
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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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I hope you're as excited as I am about making major moves,
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In many ways, I think it's time for Indiana to lead,
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I'm just here because I'm hopeful of getting citizens of west-central Indiana and all of Indiana excited about it,