Mitch Daniels Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
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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
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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 are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
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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
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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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There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.
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I took a vow of political celibacy.
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We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
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I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.
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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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[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.
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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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A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.
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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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The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero to this number that was very close to what the president proposed.
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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.'
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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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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.
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The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
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Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
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As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
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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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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
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