Mitch Daniels People Quotations

One thing that came home traveling the state was how frustrated it is, ... People down here felt that Indianapolis didn't pay attention to them. But people in Angola felt the same and in Evansville, too. A large part of my job is to get people feeling they have a larger shared destiny and objectives.

It does appear that some very serious people are going to give this a very serious look.

We are a state of people who speak plainly. We are a state of people who get to the point. Let me try to do both this evening, right now.

There will be people here who will be without permanent housing for a good while,

We found too large a percentage of procurement dollars, especially for professional services, were going out of state, ... We now look not only at value and price but where are the people who will be doing the work.

I don't want to go around beating up on small business people around Indiana who I think are just scrambling to try to serve their customers, ... If we ever see any credible evidence of somebody abusing the system, then we'll act. But, I've been looking at it every day and the Attorney General doesn't report it and I don't see it.

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.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.