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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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 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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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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I've said often that I think the practice is not a good practice. Just because I've changed seats, it hasn't changed my point of view.
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The state of our state needs serious attention.
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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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There will definitely be some restraint, and even cuts in terms of government's involvement and subsidy of corporations.
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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.
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Revenues, tax payments to the federal government -- which generally rise and fall, historically have risen and fallen with the economy and with economic growth -- have been weaker than we expected. And this is due, apparently, almost entirely, to what I will call stock market-related income,
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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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A straight answer now is that I don't believe it would be a responsible step, ... The state is still coming out of bankruptcy, and it would not provide dramatic relief to any individual.
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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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We think the 4.9 percent increase is a good number, ... It's a big increase, although it does begin to moderate the runaway binge levels of spending growth that have characterized the last few years.