143 Quotes by Mitch Daniels

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.

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: ‘Make money. Go make money. That’s the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you’ll have to hire someone else, and you’ll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we’re so proud of.’

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.