Mitch Daniels State 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.

Businesses pick not just a locality but a state, ... We are not going to give away the state but we are getting positive feed back on our efforts. We want to provide not just incentives but efficiency in the process of getting reviews done and decisions made.

We owe it to Hoosier taxpayers to look for every opportunity to save money, ... State government does not need one vehicle for every three employees, or 20 aircraft. These vehicle auctions alone have returned more than $1.5 million to state government, but the greater savings are in operations and maintenance no longer necessary.

Courts recognized Mr. Baird as suffering from mental illness at the time he committed the murders, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm recently wrote that Mr. Baird is 'insane in the ordinary sense of the word.' It is difficult to find reasons not to agree, ... However, I reached today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity. To me, it suffices to note that, had the sentence of life without parole been available in 1987, the jury and the State would have imposed it with the support of the victims' families.

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.

A straight answer now is that I don't believe it would be a responsible step, ... The state is still coming out of bankruptcy, and it would not provide dramatic relief to any individual.

The state of our state is far from sound. The state of our state needs serious attention. The foundation is still firm, but major repairs are overdue.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

I'm back to make sure the state is doing all it can to begin the process of reconstruction,

Everybody wants to find some way to be helpful and there is no state at this point that has stepped forward more boldly than ours, ... That's like Hoosiers.

If you've walked the ground down there as I have many times, you see the economic potential of that corner of the state is really terrific, ... This one project alone will have one of the highest returns of all the major moves we're suggesting.

I confess I was an original fervent believer in this concept, ... I was sad to see it has been a failure in the state of Indiana.