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" What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves. "
Paul Ryan
Poverty
People
Support
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" I grew up hunting with Remington 7400s, which are semiautomatic rifles. "
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" 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'm going to speak my mind. I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it. I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party. "
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Republican
Ideas
Speak
" Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. "
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You
Down
Growth
" I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest. "
Paul Ryan
Country
Think
Our
" I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God. "
Paul Ryan
Language
God
Government
" We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. "
Paul Ryan
Replace
Our
Principles
" 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
" We have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under Obamacare. "
Paul Ryan
Relief
Bring
Fast
" 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
" Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere. "
Paul Ryan
Business
Worth
Story
" 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
" This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars. "
Paul Ryan
Budget
Wave
Security
" That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington. "
Paul Ryan
Creation
Job
Money
" 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? "
Paul Ryan
Now
Good
Why
" I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose. "
Paul Ryan
Trade
Want
Will
" President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners? "
Paul Ryan
Mistakes
People
Story
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Me
Life
Think
" 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 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. "
Paul Ryan
America
Care
Health
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Kind
Living
Promises
" 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
" 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
" Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. "
Paul Ryan
Anxiety
Change
Fear
" 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
Change
Last
Why
" We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. "
Paul Ryan
Culture
Work
Value
" 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
" We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility. "
Paul Ryan
Others
Years
Will
" 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