Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

- Mitch Daniels

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.

- Mitch Daniels

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.

- Mitch Daniels

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government sh…

- Mitch Daniels

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship.…

- Mitch Daniels

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' A…

- Mitch Daniels

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the y…

- Mitch Daniels

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire …

- Mitch Daniels

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should c…

- Mitch Daniels