Going to be there for their kids or grandkids, and so if you dont like the direction the country is going which we dont or the policies that are in place and governorring philosophy in which we think is crowding it out, displacing it. Then as leaders we should offer a different way forward thats why i decided to do that. Because the whole point of this is the american idea and maintaining that legacy of each generation securing it for the next generation like our if parents did for us. [applause] and that is without get something we subscribe to at the same time, there are a lot of people who would say that american idea has not worked for them or for their life. There are a lot of people in this country who are poor. A lot of people in the middleclass saying it is harder and harder to make ends meet and look around them and they watch tv and see rich and payments doing extraordinary things they cant afford and why is it so many are doing so much better an im not doing as well as i cou
Thank you. [laughter] thanks guys, thank you. Thank you. [applause]. Thank you. Its great to be here. Its not where we wish we were. [laughter] but its great to be here and its wonderful to be with paul again. We had quite an experience. I know a lot of you must think it must be just awful to run for president because you have to go every night to a different hotel, and you get debate after debate after debate in the primaries and the general. Then you have the adoring press always at your heels. [laughter] yet the truth is, it is a magnificent experience. You get to see the country person by person, statebystate. Not the people who make the news. The people who make the news are doing something strange or unusual or typically not good. The people we get to see day in and day out are wonderful people. We learn about their life stories and it was touching and may be more optimistic about our future. If you get the chance to run for president , do it. Its its a great thing. The third tim
A Different Hotel every night and go to debate after debate in the primaries and then you have the adoring press always at your heels. And yet the truth is that it is a magnificent experience because you get to see the country person by person and statebystate and not just the people that make the news. And we learned about with these wonderful people and their life stories. It was very touching. [applause] we have some questions about a book that you have written this year, paul. I would note that i have read it and i hope some of you have as well so your questions can reflect that but also i know paul pretty well and as i read it i recognize he actually wrote it. [laughter] most of the books you read that are written by politicians were not actually written by politicians. They were written by professional writers. Paul wrote this book i can tell because its his voice. Its written like he speaks and that makes it even more touching and personal. But i want to begin by just asking pau
Be magnets, wisconsin congressmen and paul ryan talking with former governor president ial candidate, mitt romney about the Republican Party and conservatism. This is of the union league in chicago. Its about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Its great to be here. Its not where we wish we were, but its great to be here and its wonderful to be with paul again. We had quite an experience that i know a lot of you think it must be just awful running for president because you got to go every night to a different host tom and you get debate after debate in the primaries among the general as well and you had you during press always at your heels. And yet the truth is, it is a magnificent experience because you get to see the country person by person, statebystate. The people who make the news or by a march doing something strange or unusual are typically not good. The people we get to see day in and day out are wonde
Existing distribution of power, wealth and property, conserve tim has been associated with societies where the few dominate the many, and i just think, especially the first part of that, that the conservativism, that the argument gets used to justify Big Government in many ways, that this idea of a resistance to change which, again, i think thats a good instinct. Its in the declaration of independence. Dont change unless you absolutely have to bass it will bring bat beside things but that argument, resistance to change, is corporateist protectionity. People use protectionism to use to tariff us but i use it to refer to stuff like the wall street bailouts. It was pinstripe protectionism. Wall street, people saying we have0 this economy, five big banks and they do good things, and yes, there are good things brought about by having giant investment banks that can create mere efficient flows of capital and can do things maybe 100 small banks cant do. So the pinstripe protectionism is look