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. |
In many ways, I think it's time for Indiana to lead, |
incredible devastation next to apparently unscathed properties. |
instruction must come before construction. |
is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been. |
It does appear that some very serious people are going to give this a very serious look. |
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. |
It's not something I'd say never to, ... But at this point, I just don't see it providing meaningful relief -- a few cents a gallon relief that would accrue to the wealthy as well as the less-fortunate. |
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. |
No, and of course they shouldn't. We just got here, and there's no way to know. |
Nothing will ever be more confusing than the world we're leaving behind, |
One thing that came home traveling the state was how frustrated it is, ... People down here felt that Indianapolis didn't pay attention to them. But people in Angola felt the same and in Evansville, too. A large part of my job is to get people feeling they have a larger shared destiny and objectives. |
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. |
Politicians live in artificial lines, economies don't, ... I'm out preaching all the time of the interdependence of us all. Northwest Indiana, when steel was healthier and employment was up, once pulled a lot more weight than they do now. It matters elsewhere (in the state) that they pull out of economic decline and political corruption. |
Revenues, tax payments to the federal government -- which generally rise and fall, historically have risen and fallen with the economy and with economic growth -- have been weaker than we expected. And this is due, apparently, almost entirely, to what I will call stock market-related income, |