Who is Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is an American academic administrator, businessman, author, and retired politician. A Republican, Daniels served as the 49th governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. Since 2013, Daniels has been president of Purdue University, but has announced he will retire as of January 1, 2023.Daniels began his career as an assistant to senator Richard Lugar, working as his chief of staff in the Senate from 1977 to 1982. He was appointed executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee when Lugar was chairman from 1983 to 1984. He worked as a chief political advisor and as a liaison to President Ronald Reagan in 1985. He then moved back to Indiana to become president of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. He later jo...
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- Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
- No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
- 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.'
- 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.
- 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. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
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Jonesm80: remember when centrist and conservative media fell all over themselves to give mitch daniels credit for freezing tuition at purdue? he only did it for in-state tuition, all while increasing out-of-state enrollment.Bdomenech: daniels! how on earth could you think that other mitch. i want a budget slasher and a war ender.
Hazymania: i wouldn’t expect anything less from a university that employed mitch daniels and continues to employ a chancellor in hammond who effectively said “ching chang chong” during a commencement address
Kayla_dwyer17: mitch daniels found his next gig: a private education foundation in carmel
Ci_carmel: former indiana governor and purdue university president mitch daniels will join carmel-based liberty fund as a distinguished scholar and senior advisor.
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