Mitch Daniels Quotes

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

Future, Failure, American

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

Faith, Women, Great

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

Real, Smoking, Few

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
Mitch Daniels

Life, Waiting, Begin

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

Time, Good, Money

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.
Mitch Daniels

Decisions, Tax, Investment

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.
Mitch Daniels

Successful, Purpose, Clear

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Less, Create

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.
Mitch Daniels

Work, Issue, Indiana

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

Nation, Seen, Corner

My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.
Mitch Daniels

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
Mitch Daniels

Alone, Successful, Small

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

Others, Favor, Efforts

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

Money, Great, Chance

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Behavior, Needs

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
Mitch Daniels

Work, Age, Through

The state of our state needs serious attention.
Mitch Daniels

Serious, Attention, State

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

Nothing, Outlook, Vigorous

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

Life, Government, Around

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, Nation, Ours

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Mitch Daniels

Long, Prayer, Almost

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

Kids, Behind, Results

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

Work, Political, Done

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.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Small, Nation

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

Freedom, Free, Wrong

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 7, 1949

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