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I'm a person that can get along with people. I like people who believe passionately in things even if they're not the things I agree with.

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Paul Ryan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 29
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Progressives deliver everything except progress.
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We`re the generous country, we`re the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.
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Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.
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Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.
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I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.
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Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?
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We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'
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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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If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
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Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.
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Our point is we don`t want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition.
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Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn`t work.
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We do not have a debt crisis right now, but we see it coming. We know it's irrefutably happening. And the point we're trying to make with our budget is let's get ahead of this problem.
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You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.
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You can go back and rescind an old regulation like Obama era regulations. That was done once in 20 years. We've done 14 of them in law this year alone, because they can't filibuster that.
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Donald Trump is a pretty casual guy. He calls me Paul.
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Hiding spending does not reduce spending.
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The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.
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I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with.
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Look at the potential for America. Look at the direction we've been going. Look at the direction we need to go.
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