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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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" Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. "

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

" 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. "

" We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. "

" The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 state of our state needs serious attention. "

" 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. "