{"id":12083,"date":"2011-11-18T14:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:53:52","slug":"paul-ryan-at-claremont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12083\/paul-ryan-at-claremont\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan at Claremont"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the keynote address<\/a> after receiving the Claremont Institute’s Churchill Award for Statesmanship.\u00a0 The text of his remarks are available here<\/a>, with the conclusion reminding us why Ryan will likely be the first name on any GOP Vice President list next summer:<\/p>\n

Congresses are elected to promote the common good of our country. And Congress has the power to take control of our nation\u2019s fate, and to reclaim popular trust in government.<\/p>\n

We face a choice of two futures in this country. But I am optimistic that if we give Americans a clear choice, they will do the right thing. As Churchill put it, \u201cAmericans can always be counted on to do the right thing… but only after they have exhausted all other possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look, Republicans didn\u2019t always get it right as a party ourselves. But if there ever was a time to gather our political courage and reclaim our ideas, it is now. The country is facing a very precarious moment.<\/p>\n

Your leaders owe you a real<\/em><\/strong> choice. Do you want the President\u2019s path of debt, doubt and decline, where government goes from promoting equal opportunity to equalizing the results of our lives?<\/p>\n

Or do you want the American idea: the opportunity society with the safety net, dedicated to liberty, equality of opportunity, and upward mobility?<\/p>\n

It is our moral obligation, as elected representatives, to give the American people this choice.<\/p>\n

And if we do our jobs right, then we will soon have the duty, and the privilege, to make that vision a reality.<\/p>\n

Let it be said of us, as Churchill said of his people in their most difficult hour: \u201cWe ought to rejoice at the responsibilities with which destiny has honored us\u2026 and be proud that we are guardians of our country in an age when her life is at stake.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the keynote address after receiving the Claremont Institute’s Churchill Award for Statesmanship.\u00a0 The text of his remarks are available here, with the conclusion reminding us why Ryan will likely be the first name on any GOP Vice President list next summer: Congresses are elected to promote the common good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1019,3201,802,1753,2729],"class_list":["post-12083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-churchill","tag-claremont-institute","tag-paul-ryan","tag-statesmanship","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12088,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions\/12088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}