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• 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, Dollars, Three

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". edition.cnn.com. January 25, 2012.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  People, Decision, Doe

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• We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

  Mitch Daniels

  Smart, Choices, Low Income

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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

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  States, Personal Freedom, Private Sector

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• We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, Pockets, Doe

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Jobs, Ambition, Optimism

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.

  Mitch Daniels

  Book, School, Law

  "Ex-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Supports Free Speech - Except When He Disagrees With It" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. July 17, 2013.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Conservative, Outlook, Inconsistent

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• I took a vow of political celibacy.

  Mitch Daniels

  Political, Celibacy, Vow

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• We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

  Mitch Daniels

  Believe, Drawing, Balance

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Jobs, Believe, Recovery

  "SOTU: GOP Response". abcnews.go.com.

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• 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, Should, Spending

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Believe, Issues, Looks

  "Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Is Tough On Budgets". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 28, 2011.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Rewards, Refrain, Disgusted

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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

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  Enemy, Challenging The Status Quo, Social

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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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

  Prayer, Our Generation, Long

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

  Mitch Daniels

  Children, School, Thinking

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  Mitch Daniels

  Reality, Ink, Debt

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

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  Years, Income, Citizens

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• 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.

  Mitch Daniels

  Enemy, Social, Arithmetic

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". www.cnn.com. January 24, 2012.

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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

  Independent, Opportunity, Challenges

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• 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

  Retirement, Age, Starting

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Ink, Debt, Red

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• 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

  Teacher, Educational, Kids

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Waiting, Tonight, Ladders

  "GOP blasts Obama for engaging in class warfare". www.cnn.com. January 25, 2012.

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