Pat Ryan actually said...

"our number one priority has to be expanding economic growth; making sure we promote job creation; making sure we strengthen the middle class"

"I really worry that part of our government here, two-thirds of it, you know, the Senate and the White House, and our friends over on the other side of the aisle, are deluding themselves into thinking ..."

"if we fritter this time away, if we don't deal with the core problem, which is spending no matter what you try to do on revenues, then we will have lost this opportunity we have to get our fiscal hous..."

"Closing loopholes, which is what we proposed for years, is a necessary pay-for to get tax rates down, to have a globally competitive Tax Code, to help businesses, to create jobs, to get people back to..."