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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.'
- Mitch Daniels
#Experience
#Government
#Pain
#Suffering
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Health
#Light
#School
#Stop
#Why
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.
- Mitch Daniels
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#Big
#Change
#Freedom
#Will
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Born
#Faith
#Great
#Liberty
#People
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.'
- Mitch Daniels
#Back
#Burden
#Life
#Me
#Why
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
- Mitch Daniels
#Enemies
#Security
#Status Quo
#True
#Who
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.
- Mitch Daniels
#Diet
#Disgusted
#Reward
#Steady
#Those
#Who
I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.
- Mitch Daniels
#Believe
#Children
#Government
#Injury
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.'
- Mitch Daniels
#Business
#Citizenship
#Help
#Me
#Money
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Behind
#Kids
#Potential
#Teachers
#Worse
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.
- Mitch Daniels
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#Curry
#Favor
#Others
#Us
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Accept
#Always
#Must
#Nation
#Will
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Energy
#Job
#Potential
#Treat
#Way
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.
- Mitch Daniels
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#Government
#Growth
#Money
#Time
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
- Mitch Daniels
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#Government
#Make
#More
#Only
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Back
#Believe
#Government
#Middle Class
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
#Earning
#More
#Pay
#Step
#Us
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.
- Mitch Daniels
#Ambition
#Failure
#Future
#Optimism
#Us
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.
- Mitch Daniels
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#Great
#Independence
#Men
#Women
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