Mitch Daniels

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

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The state of our state needs serious attention. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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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. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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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. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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

— Mitch Daniels

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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. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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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. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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