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.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.