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" When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates. "
Paul Ryan
Problems
Giving
Credit
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens. "
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" 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. "
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I Am
" We have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under Obamacare. "
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" We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty. "
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Think
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" The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. "
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" We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. "
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" I am a pro-growth, constitutional, limited government conservative. So I'm going to speak out for what I believe in - the kind of inclusive, aspirational, optimistic politics which unites people. "
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I Am
Government
" 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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Why
" I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest. "
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Country
Think
Our
" 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
" 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. "
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Lazy
Believe
Think
" After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney. "
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America
Years
" Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track. "
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Blame
Change
Hope
" Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. "
Paul Ryan
I Am Happy
Deer
Happy
" The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction. "
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People
Direction
" Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. "
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Economics
Capitalism
" Hiding spending does not reduce spending. "
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Does
Hiding
" This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us. "
Paul Ryan
Problems
Positive
Empower
" 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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Change
Last
Why
" 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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Choice
Government
" We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. "
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Our
Principles
" President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. "
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Fear
" 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. "
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" Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. "
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Down
Growth
" 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. "
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Choices
Free
" 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. "
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Know
Control
" 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? "
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Goodness
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" 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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Person
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