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'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.