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" That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington. "
Paul Ryan
Creation
Job
Money
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" 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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" Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate. "
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" 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. "
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Place
" As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party. "
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" 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
" My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. "
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" Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. "
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Society
Movement
" The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage. "
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Children
People
Retirement
" 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
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Time
" Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. "
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Community
Working Together
Achievement
" I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. "
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Should
Tell
Me
" If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation. "
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Done
Budget
Fight
" I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest. "
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Country
Think
Our
" Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. "
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Way
Spending
Prosperity
" If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand. "
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Try
Person
Me
" 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
" 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
" Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. "
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God
Government
Independence
" When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work. "
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War
Culture
Change
" I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. "
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Political
Ambition
Policy
" Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring. "
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Look
Nobody
Tax
" 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
" I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers. "
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Would
Sue
President
" 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
" 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
" I grew up hunting with Remington 7400s, which are semiautomatic rifles. "
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Grew
Up
Hunting
" I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. "
Paul Ryan
Silent
Seen
Power
" 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. "
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Decisions
Control
Future
" This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs. "
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People
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