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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Washington is overrun by interests who want to take an ever larger share of taxpayer dollars for their causes, ... They put their pet programs, however ineffective, duplicative, obsolete or unimportant, ahead of larger national goals.
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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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By far, the highest percentage tax reduction will go to those working Americans in the lower brackets,
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We owe it to Hoosier taxpayers to look for every opportunity to save money, ... State government does not need one vehicle for every three employees, or 20 aircraft. These vehicle auctions alone have returned more than $1.5 million to state government, but the greater savings are in operations and maintenance no longer necessary.
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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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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.