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" 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
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" What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? "
Paul Ryan
Time
Leadership
Man
" We are in a global economy whether we like it or not. And we believe - I believe - that America should be at the table writing the rules of the global economy instead of China. "
Paul Ryan
Rules
Table
Writing
" We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric. "
Paul Ryan
Rhetoric
Partisan
Looking
" I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare. "
Paul Ryan
Economics
Capitalism
Money
" Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. "
Paul Ryan
Responsibility
Choices
Free
" Hiding spending does not reduce spending. "
Paul Ryan
Spending
Does
Hiding
" 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
" If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. "
Paul Ryan
Borrowing
More
Money
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Win
America
Authority
" I grew up hunting with Remington 7400s, which are semiautomatic rifles. "
Paul Ryan
Grew
Up
Hunting
" 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
" America is more than just a country. It's more than Chicago or Wisconsin. It's more than our borders. America is an idea. It's a very precious idea. "
Paul Ryan
Chicago
America
Precious
" 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? "
Paul Ryan
Work
Change
College
" So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. "
Paul Ryan
Kind
Health
Place
" You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program. "
Paul Ryan
Yes
You
Going
" Obamacare rewrote Medicare... so if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well... What people don't realize is that Medicare is going broke, that Medicare is going to have price controls... So you have to deal with those issues if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. "
Paul Ryan
You
People
Going
" Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. "
Paul Ryan
Society
Government
Washington
" The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. "
Paul Ryan
Fight
Public Service
Service
" If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws. "
Paul Ryan
Law
Change
Congress
" 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 learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now. "
Paul Ryan
Good
People
Power
" Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. "
Paul Ryan
History
American
Help
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Vision
Road
Will
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Know
America
Children
" People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles. "
Paul Ryan
Rifles
Constitutional
Right
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Us
History
Seriously
" Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. "
Paul Ryan
Women
Revered
Women Are
" We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. "
Paul Ryan
Feet
People
Speak
" 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