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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Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work. – Mitch Daniels

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Age
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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. – Mitch Daniels

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Health
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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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Hope
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Government
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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done? – Proverb

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Government

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Art)

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Government

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. – Paul Tsongas

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Government

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand

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Government

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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – E. M. Forster

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Life

A garden of love grows in a grandmother’s heart. – Author Unknown

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Grandparents

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. – Luc de Clapiers

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Fear

Divorce is probably as painful as death. – William Shatner

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Death