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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The state of our state needs serious attention. "

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

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

" 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. "