Mitch Daniels

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

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.

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.