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" 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
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" We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation. "
Paul Ryan
Changes
People
Saying
" I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers. "
Paul Ryan
Would
Sue
President
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis. "
Paul Ryan
Challenge
Doubt
Face
" Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget. "
Paul Ryan
Too Much
Budget
I Am
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Done
Budget
Fight
" In America, aren't we all supposed to see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity? Are all these lines drawn to set us apart and lock us into groups? "
Paul Ryan
Beyond
America
Class
" 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
" We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric. "
Paul Ryan
Rhetoric
Partisan
Looking
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Parents
New
Going
" 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
" Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. "
Paul Ryan
Women
Revered
Women Are
" 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
" Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? "
Paul Ryan
Poverty
Prosperity
Want
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
People
Choice
Government
" We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds. "
Paul Ryan
Government
Commitment
Succeed
" Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. "
Paul Ryan
Lot
Society
Movement
" 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 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. "
Paul Ryan
Republican
Ideas
Speak
" I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. "
Paul Ryan
Political
Ambition
Policy
" Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. "
Paul Ryan
Country
Two
Taxes
" 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
" The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy. "
Paul Ryan
Control
Economy
Just
" We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. "
Paul Ryan
Goal
Over
Plan
" 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
" We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility. "
Paul Ryan
Others
Years
Will