Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.
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.
I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
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.
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.
And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.
My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.
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.
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.
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
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.
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.
