Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as investment. – Paul Ryan

We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government. – Paul Ryan

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if were some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. Its 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