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" A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions. "
Mitch Daniels
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" My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable. "
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" We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. "
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" I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do. "
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" If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come. "
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" I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. "
Mitch Daniels
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" We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer. "
Mitch Daniels
Citizen
Purpose
Free
" Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose. "
Mitch Daniels
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Successful
Strategic
" Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand. "
Mitch Daniels
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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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Say
Strength
" We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. "
Mitch Daniels
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Contempt
" In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. "
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Way
Hope
" The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. "
Mitch Daniels
Security
Nothing
Who
" So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive. "
Mitch Daniels
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Over
More
" Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. "
Mitch Daniels
Potential
Behind
Teachers
" Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. "
Mitch Daniels
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Potential
Treat
" We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care. "
Mitch Daniels
Own
Choices
Care
" We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. "
Mitch Daniels
Heart
Special
American
" We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. "
Mitch Daniels
Better
Say
Money
" The state of our state needs serious attention. "
Mitch Daniels
Needs
Serious
State
" No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. "
Mitch Daniels
Small
Successful
Public
" If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation. "
Mitch Daniels
Nation
Will
People
" I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at. "
Mitch Daniels
Look
Work
Right
" The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. "
Mitch Daniels
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Thrive
Government
" Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. "
Mitch Daniels
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Government
" Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. "
Mitch Daniels
Our
Behavior
Surgery
" Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. "
Mitch Daniels
Money
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" When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.' "
Mitch Daniels
Proud
Business
Help
" Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. "
Mitch Daniels
First
Life
Thought
" As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. "
Mitch Daniels
Life
Resume
Up
" When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.' "
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Pain
Experience
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