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" And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up. "

Mitch Daniels

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" Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" The state of our state needs serious attention. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. "

" The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. "

" I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do. "

" We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around. "

" A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions. "

" We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. "

" 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. "

" We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose. "

" 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. "

" We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will? "

" The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. "

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" 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. "

" Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work. "

" No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. "

" We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves. "

" We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. "

" All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. "