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.

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.

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.

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