Mitch Daniels

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.

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

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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.