Mitch Daniels Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

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

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

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.

I took a vow of political celibacy.

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.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

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

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

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

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.

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.

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

My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

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

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

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.

Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

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

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

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

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.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.