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" 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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" 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

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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. "

Mitch Daniels

Life

Resume

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

Mitch Daniels

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Government

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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