Mitch Daniels Quotes

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

Aside from true emergencies, most health care decisions are shoppable.

My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.

Choices are a very important part of our lives.

In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.

My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to network at public events, to cultivate senior journalists at important outlets, and how to run a profitable P&L. But, more or less, he allowed me to make my own mistakes.

Every major life decision in my 20s and 30s - when to get married, where to buy an apartment, whether to freeze my eggs until after the election - had revolved around a single looming question: What about Hillary Clinton?

Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very little real choice of the health benefits they want.

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.

There's so much that can influence kids and young adults now, you just have to raise them the best you can and hope they make the right decisions.

It's my life, my career. I'm making all the decisions now.

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you sillies, you DIDN'T REALLY like the plan you chose for yourselves! No arguing. Barack Obama knows best, and he'll tell you whether you actually liked your insurance plan or not.

Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

Always walk where you like your steps.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.