Quote by Mitch Daniels
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hun

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. – Mitch Daniels

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Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. – Mitch Daniels

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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. – Mitch Daniels

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If freedoms 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. – Mitch Daniels

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Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that theyre purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, lets get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of – innocent citizens. – John Mica

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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

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Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. – Robert A. Heinlein

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