Mitch Daniels was elected Governor of Indiana in 2004 and re- elected in 2008. He was previously the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (a cabinet-level position) under President George W. Bush and a senior aide to President Ronald Reagan. He also spent many years in the private sector as a senior executive at Eli Lilly and Company and the CEO of one of the nation's most influential research centers, the Hudson Institute. He and his wife Cheri have four daughters and live in Indianapolis.
"Governor Daniels has emerged as one of our nation's leading voices
for reform and common sense in government." — Speaker of the House
John Boehner
"The onetime Reagan White House political director and Bush White
House budget chief is not your run-of-the-mill intellectual. His
style is to be down- home, but his record of accomplishment is
dazzling." — David S. Broder, The Washington Post
"He's one of the brightest governors in America." — New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie
"[Daniels is] the rare politician telling it like it is...I would
pay cash money to watch him debate Obama on these issues, and I
suspect the Republic would be much the better for it." — Joe Klein,
Time
"Mitch is the only one who sees the stark perils and will offer
real detailed proposals...He would be the anti-Obama. — Former
Florida Governor Jeb Bush
"A principled but practical conservative who respects the
intelligence of voters and would rather get something done than
score political points." — Steven Pearlstein, The Washington
Post
"He does not tweet...But he is good at one thing in particular:
governing." — The Economist
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