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" Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. "
Paul Ryan
Participation
Economics
Capitalism
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" And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. "
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Morning
Thinking
Door
" 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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Hope
" If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. "
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" 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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Change
Last
Why
" Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes. "
Paul Ryan
Veil
Drops
Now
" I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. "
Paul Ryan
Silent
Seen
Power
" There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. "
Paul Ryan
Competition
True
Choice
" College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. "
Paul Ryan
Live
College
Childhood
" There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations. "
Paul Ryan
Look
Rust
Farmers
" I'm tired of divided government. It doesn't work very well. "
Paul Ryan
Divided
Work
Well
" As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party. "
Paul Ryan
Party
Challenge
Become
" Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. "
Paul Ryan
Lazy
Believe
Think
" We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them. "
Paul Ryan
Government
People
Listening
" I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt. "
Paul Ryan
I Believe
Crisis
Believe
" What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing. "
Paul Ryan
Me
Attitude
Think
" If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices. "
Paul Ryan
Person
People
Party
" Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. "
Paul Ryan
You
Down
Growth
" When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. "
Paul Ryan
Going
Me
Said
" We see ourselves in the House as sort of the engine room of the ship of the Republican Party. We're down in the bottom... in the bowels shoveling coal into the furnace. And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with coal. "
Paul Ryan
Republican
Ship
Down
" That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington. "
Paul Ryan
Creation
Job
Money
" What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. "
Paul Ryan
More
Debt
Just
" I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to. "
Paul Ryan
Think
Run
Running
" Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare. "
Paul Ryan
Healthcare
Want
Achieve
" Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. "
Paul Ryan
Women
Revered
Women Are
" That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life. "
Paul Ryan
Society
Plan
Opportunity
" When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates. "
Paul Ryan
Problems
Giving
Credit
" Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on. "
Paul Ryan
Democratic
Two
Party
" Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. "
Paul Ryan
Imagination
Skills
Ideas
" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "
Paul Ryan
Government
Inequality
Tax
" Today, if you were raised poor, you're just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago. "
Paul Ryan
You
Today
Years