Mitch Daniels Quotes

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

There's a lot of stuff out there that government shouldn't do.

Each dollar taxed and spent deprives Americans of the freedom to make their own choices.

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

The Constitution does not demand that you or I buy anything.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.