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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We have emptied every coffee can in the backyard and maxed out all the credit cards. When your past due bills exceed your cash on hand, when your month-in, month-out expenses far exceed the size of your paycheck, when your once-hefty savings have all been run through, the average family knows what to call it.
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The state of our state is far from sound. The state of our state needs serious attention. The foundation is still firm, but major repairs are overdue.
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In many ways, I think it's time for Indiana to lead,
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Everybody wants to find some way to be helpful and there is no state at this point that has stepped forward more boldly than ours, ... That's like Hoosiers.
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No, and of course they shouldn't. We just got here, and there's no way to know.
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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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I hope you're as excited as I am about making major moves,
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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,
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It's what we consider one of a handful of the most important projects. We're going to make it happen as fast as we can.
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I try to take the same message everywhere I go, ... We're all in this together in Indiana.
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Courts recognized Mr. Baird as suffering from mental illness at the time he committed the murders, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm recently wrote that Mr. Baird is 'insane in the ordinary sense of the word.' It is difficult to find reasons not to agree, ... However, I reached today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity. To me, it suffices to note that, had the sentence of life without parole been available in 1987, the jury and the State would have imposed it with the support of the victims' families.
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And, the time has come to stop penalizing Indiana businesses through our quirky treatment of time itself. If it were just a matter of the rest of the world's laughing at us, I'd say let them laugh. But the loss of Hoosier jobs and income is no laughing matter.
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Folks at Treasury believe that some folks will go ahead and pay it (this year) anyway, ... Didn't get the memo, I guess, but that's the answer.