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The state of our state needs serious attention.

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If they don't act, I would ask the legislature to review it again.

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As you know, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provisions require that firms seeking to do business with the government have a satisfactory record of business ethics and integrity. Consideration should be given to the initiation of suspension or debarment proceedings for all, or a part, of Arthur Andersen and Enron as appropriate.

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We owe it to Hoosier taxpayers to look for every opportunity to save money, ... State government does not need one vehicle for every three employees, or 20 aircraft. These vehicle auctions alone have returned more than 1.5 million to state government, but the greater savings are in operations and maintenance no longer necessary.

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The report we've issued this morning confirms that the nation has entered an era of solid surpluses, surpluses on the order of 160 billion, despite an economy that's been weak now for over a year and in decline for that time.

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If it doesn't look like a solid gold (dollar total), ... then we won't do it.

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The process is to stimulate questions of whether we are aiming high enough, ... I want us to accept the idea that acceptable performance should be nothing less than great.

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We cannot achieve a top-tier economy without a top-tier transportation system, ... To make sure that no Hoosier community is left behind, we must make major moves and bring into being a system of roads, bridges, rail lines, ports and airports second to none.

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We have 50 programs for the homeless sprawling across eight departments of government, ... Late Edition.

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We are a state of people who speak plainly. We are a state of people who get to the point. Let me try to do both this evening, right now.

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I confess I was an original fervent believer in this concept, ... I was sad to see it has been a failure in the state of Indiana.

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It's what we consider one of a handful of the most important projects. We're going to make it happen as fast as we can.

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Yes, we hired an out-of-state firm to run it, but it created 300 jobs in a hard-hit county and saved us 6 million a year we were paying to Kentucky to house our prisoners, ... I have no theological view about privatization, but I believe we should look at competition or contracting when looking at services the government should be providing. What is the most effective way

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a critical first step in bringing President Bush's budget to fruition. We look forward to working with the Budget Committee and the Congress to make these priorities law.

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When you multiply that 43 cents by three meals a day, times 365 days a year for 26,000 prisoners, you're talking about a lot of money, ... I'm just for what works.

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I can only vouch for her character, her personal qualities of compassion and thoughtfulness and intellect, ... My sense is her legal career makes it plain that she would see herself as a judge and not a legislator on the bench, which I personally think is appropriate and important.

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The state of our state is far from sound. The state of our state needs serious attention. The foundation is still firm, but major repairs are overdue.

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We found too large a percentage of procurement dollars, especially for professional services, were going out of state, ... We now look not only at value and price but where are the people who will be doing the work.

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The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero to this number that was very close to what the president proposed.

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It's a real privilege I've discovered comes with having a job like this, ... If you take the time to just spend a full minute with someone rather than five seconds, you've become part of a really memorable experience for them.

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If you've walked the ground down there as I have many times, you see the economic potential of that corner of the state is really terrific, ... This one project alone will have one of the highest returns of all the major moves we're suggesting.

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These are areas where we are already strong and can bring money into some of the hardest hit areas of the state. We've got to quit treating agriculture as some relic from the past and realize it still has a real economic upside.

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It does appear that some very serious people are going to give this a very serious look.

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We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

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Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.

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