Best quotes by Mitch Daniels on Government

Checkout quotes by Mitch Daniels on Government

• ‟ We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

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• ‟ Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

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• ‟ Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

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• ‟ Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

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• ‟ We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

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• ‟ When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

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• ‟ The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

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• ‟ In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

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• ‟ The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

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• ‟ I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

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• ‟ We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

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• ‟ We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

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