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"Better days lie ahead for our country"_  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Updated: Jan 24, 2024 4:17 PM UTCPublished: Mar 6, 2014 11:06 PM UTC  Congressman Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, waves to the crowd after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., March 6, 2014. Congressman Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, waves to the crowd after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., March 6, 2014. Lexey Swall—GRAIN for TIME  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Updated: Jan 24, 2024 4:17 PM UTCPublished: Mar 6, 2014 11:06 PM UTC Paul Ryan argued that liberal government programs give people comfort but not dignity. In a [speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwnUaGZOdk) he made at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the country’s largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists, Thursday, he shared a story he heard from Eloise Anderson, who serves in the Cabinet for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, as a way of criticizing the Affordable Care Act. --- > “” --- **Update:** The story has been updated to add a fuller quote and context to Ryan’s remarks at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. A spokeswoman for Anderson [later told the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/03/06/a-story-too-good-to-check-paul-ryan-and-the-story-of-the-brown-paper-bag/?utm%5Fterm=.322c454463e6) that she had misspoken while testifying before Congress, and that the quote about a brown-paper bag came from a TV interview she saw. ## Transcript Welcome to the dawn of a new, unified Republican government. Feels really good to say that actually. This is will be a government focused on turning President- elect Trump's victory into real progress for the American people. Our team is very excited and we cannot wait to get to work. At the same time we recognize the task ahead of us is enormous If we are going to put our country back on the right track, we have got to bold and we have to go big. This country is excepting absolutely no loss. We're on the same page with our president- elect. I talk with Donald Trump virtually every single day. I spoke with Mike Pence this morning. We are on the same page, we're working hand and glove, and we're going to make sure this is a very successful administration. But more importantly We are going to make sure that the voices we heard from this election from the american people are acted upon. 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