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" Hiding spending does not reduce spending. "
Paul Ryan
Spending
Does
Hiding
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" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Growth
Choice
Size
" As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party. "
Paul Ryan
Party
Challenge
Become
" I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. "
Paul Ryan
Should
Tell
Me
" We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. "
Paul Ryan
Responsibility
Believe
Government
" Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. "
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Parents
New
Going
" Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.' "
Paul Ryan
Government
You
Office
" Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you. "
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You
Look
People
" Today, if you were raised poor, you're just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago. "
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You
Today
Years
" When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future. "
Paul Ryan
Left
Serious
Ideas
" 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
" The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. "
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Going
Medicare
Stop
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
You
Want
I Am
" 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
" 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
" We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric. "
Paul Ryan
Rhetoric
Partisan
Looking
" We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. "
Paul Ryan
American
History
Generation
" The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives. "
Paul Ryan
Free
Right
Moral
" The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. "
Paul Ryan
Belief
Better
Government
" 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
" 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
" We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. "
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Goal
Over
Plan
" This is what life is like with the Clintons. It is one scandal after another, and you never know what's coming next. They use the system to enrich themselves. "
Paul Ryan
Never
System
You
" Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. "
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Country
Two
Taxes
" President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government. "
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Cloud
Government
You
" The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems. "
Paul Ryan
Problems
Speech
Forward
" What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control. "
Paul Ryan
Decisions
Control
Future
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Morning
Thinking
Door
" The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering. "
Paul Ryan
Leadership
Know
Control
" Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this. "
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You
Problems
Time
" 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. "
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Think
Run
Running