“We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?” IfsBelieveEconomyBalanceCitizensFellowsAssumingDon't BelieveDebtDrawingSheetsBalance Sheets Author:Mitch Daniels
“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.” BelievePurposeCitizensDollarsOwnersDiminish Author:Mitch Daniels
“We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.” StatesCareChoicesPlansCitizensProveCapableSmartLowsAccountsIncomeSavingHealth CareEmployeeSavingsLow IncomeSavings AccountsHoosiersHealth Plan Author:Mitch Daniels
“If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come” IfsBigsCitizensProgramFellowsFundamentalsMajorityBroadsRealisticBig Changes Author:Mitch Daniels
“Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.” RealLosesCitizensDiseaseBenefitsSmokingPoundsCracksMarijuanaDiligenceStop Smoking Author:Mitch Daniels
“So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.” YearsAsksPayStepsCitizensPercentIncomeFortunateTonightEarningPropose Author:Mitch Daniels
