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Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is an American academic administrator, businessman, author, and retired politician who served as the 49th Governor of Indiana, from 2005 to 2013, and a Republican. Since 2013 Daniels has been president of Purdue University.

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We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.

Book, Inflicted, Law, Oversight, School

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

Clubs, Enabling, Fostering, Government, Important, League

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Americans, Curry, Divide, Effort, Favors

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Arithmetic, Change, Enemy, Mislead, Plain, Social

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.

Government, Dollars, Three, Spends, Entire, Large

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.

Weed, Real, Years, Devour, Commissions, Sprouted

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Burden Of Proof, Should, Spending, Proof, Prove, Places

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Enterprises, Faith, Liberty, Pearl, Pearls, People

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Enemy, Challenging The Status Quo, Social, Imploding, True, Medicare

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

Prayer, Our Generation, Long, Duration, Unprecedented

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.

Believe, Citizens, Diminishes, Dollars, Take, Wrong

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?

Balance, Believe, Citizens, Drawing, Economy, Tasked

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Teacher, Educational, Kids, Devoted, Lag, Nations

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

Consisting, Debt, Ink, Red, Time

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.

Chronic, Crack, Loses, Marijuana, Real, Smoking

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Defamation, Disgusted, Prepared, Refrain, Reward, Rewards

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

Believe, Issues, Indiana, Work, Look

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

Believe, Nation, People, Typical

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. '

Government, Pain, Real, Reductions, Say, Stay

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Believe, Cutting, Ignorance, Quaint, Tribal

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