Mitch Daniels Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.”

“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.”

“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.'”

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

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

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

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

“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.”