Quote by Mitch Daniels
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the

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. – Mitch Daniels

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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. – 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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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. – Mitch Daniels

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. – Thomas Jefferson

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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. – Albert Einstein

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