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• 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

  Military, Years, Defense

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

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• 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.

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  People, Tasks, Add

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

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

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  Government, Needs, Behavior

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

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• 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.'

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  Pain, Real, Government

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

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

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  Climbing, Might, Firsts

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

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

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  Government, League, Important

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

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• My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

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  Records, Knows

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• 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.

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  Believe, People, Typical

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

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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.

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  Believe, Dollars, Citizens

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

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• 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.

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  Real, Marijuana, Smoking

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• 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

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  Hands, People, Political

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• 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

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  Majority, Citizens, Fundamentals

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

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• 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.

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  Effort, Favors, Curry

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

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

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  Country, Reelection, Might

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• Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

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  Successful, Purpose, Enterprise

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

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  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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• 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.

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  People, Liberty, Pearls

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

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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.

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  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.

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  People, Decision, Doe

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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.

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  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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• I took a vow of political celibacy.

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  Political, Celibacy, Vow

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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 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.

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  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.

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  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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