American - Politician | April 7, 1949 -
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
Mitch Daniels
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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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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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The state of our state needs serious attention.
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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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We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
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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.
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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.
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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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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
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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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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?
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