The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. Mitch Daniels More Quotes by Mitch Daniels More Quotes From 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 tasksaddpeople 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 defensemilitaryyears Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. Mitch Daniels governmentbehaviorneeds 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 paingovernmentreal Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. Mitch Daniels climbingmightfirsts We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. Mitch Daniels governmentimportantleague 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 indianaproudleader 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 zerorealitythinking My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable. Mitch Daniels recordsknows 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 typicalbelievepeople 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 dollarscitizensbelieve 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 marijuanarealsmoking 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 politicalhandspeople 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 majoritycitizensfundamentals 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 curryeffortfavors [Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism. Mitch Daniels reelectionmightcountry Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose. Mitch Daniels enterprisepurposesuccessful 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 recoveryjobsbelieve 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-proofspendingshould 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 eventseyeloss
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