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" And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. "
Paul Ryan
Elderly
Power
Play
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" We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead. "
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" Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track. "
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" The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' "
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" We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America. "
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Health
" In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017. "
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Get
Choice
" The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. "
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Medicare
Stop
" Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. "
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Working Together
Achievement
" In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government. "
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Choice
Size
" President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it. "
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Kind
Living
Promises
" The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this. "
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Work
Best
Growing
" Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget. "
Paul Ryan
Too Much
Budget
I Am
" I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. "
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Political
Ambition
Policy
" Everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off, because there is worth and goodness in every life... That is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will? "
Paul Ryan
Life
Goodness
Republican
" We have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under Obamacare. "
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Relief
Bring
Fast
" Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. "
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Life
Small
She
" Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do. "
Paul Ryan
Challenge
Crisis
Debt
" By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. "
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Us
History
Seriously
" I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest. "
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Country
Think
Our
" Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. "
Paul Ryan
I Am Happy
Deer
Happy
" I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place. "
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Kind
Live
Up
" Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? "
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Work
Change
College
" I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready. "
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America
Children
" When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now? "
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Now
Good
Why
" I cannot and I will not give up my family. I may not be on the road as often as previous speakers, but I pledge to make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message. "
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Vision
Road
Will
" Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? "
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Poverty
Prosperity
Want
" This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us. "
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Problems
Positive
Empower
" A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year. "
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Win
America
Authority
" Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. "
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Participation
Economics
Capitalism
" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "
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Believe
Liberty
Happiness
" I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee. "
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You
Want
I Am