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I am compelled to note that Father Jenkins is off to a somewhat shaky start. He has violated the first rule of all great leaders, which is to never follow a superstar.

Mitch Daniels

 

There will definitely be some restraint, and even cuts in terms of government's involvement and subsidy of corporations.

Mitch Daniels

 Corporations

a critical first step in bringing President Bush's budget to fruition. We look forward to working with the Budget Committee and the Congress to make these priorities law.

Mitch Daniels

 

The report we've issued this morning confirms that the nation has entered an era of solid surpluses, surpluses on the order of $160 billion, despite an economy that's been weak now for over a year and in decline for that time.

Mitch Daniels

 

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.

Mitch Daniels

 Defense

Those are not particularly the ones we're looking at here, but we have to be careful with duplication of that kind.

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It's a real privilege I've discovered comes with having a job like this, ... If you take the time to just spend a full minute with someone rather than five seconds, you've become part of a really memorable experience for them.

Mitch Daniels

 Privilege

I-69, on the plans we found when we arrived here, wouldn't happen until the mid-2030s and that's just simply unacceptable, ... It's clear to us that it can only happen if it is partially defrayed through tolls.

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We found too large a percentage of procurement dollars, especially for professional services, were going out of state, ... We now look not only at value and price but where are the people who will be doing the work.

Mitch Daniels

 

And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are in ruin. We have outspent our income year after year.

Mitch Daniels