Mitch Daniels Professions : Former Governor of Indiana Born : April 7, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 55 quotes by Mitch Daniels 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. Mitch Daniels tasks add people 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.' Mitch Daniels defense military years Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. Mitch Daniels government behavior needs 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 pain government real Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. Mitch Daniels climbing might firsts We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. Mitch Daniels government important league 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 indiana proud leader 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. Mitch Daniels zero reality thinking My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable. Mitch Daniels records knows 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. Mitch Daniels typical believe people 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. Mitch Daniels dollars citizens believe 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. Mitch Daniels marijuana real smoking 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 Mitch Daniels political hands people 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 majority citizens fundamentals 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 curry effort favors [Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism. Mitch Daniels reelection might country Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose. Mitch Daniels enterprise purpose successful 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 recovery jobs believe 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 burden-of-proof spending should Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one. Mitch Daniels events eye loss
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