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" As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. "
Mitch Daniels
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. "
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" Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose. "
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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.' "
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" 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. "
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" The state of our state needs serious attention. "
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" 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. "
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" Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all. "
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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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" Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work. "
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" The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. "
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" The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it. "
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" The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. "
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" 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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" I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at. "
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" My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some. "
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Great
Chance
" 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. "
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