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" My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. "

" 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. "