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Ryan Won’t Decide on White House Bid Until Next Year

October 30, 2014 · 11:45 am ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) tells the Washington Post he’s in no hurry to make a decision on running for president in 2016.

Said Ryan: “I’ve got all the time in the world. I don’t have some calendar with a red circle. I don’t feel the pressure to do it any other way. I have my own timeline and I don’t let stuff that’s happening around me get to my head. That’s dangerous.”

He added: “I’m not dying to be this or that. I’m more of a cause guy. So I come at this thing from that perspective. I don’t have this insatiable political ambition. But I know how to flip the switch. If you flip the switch, you flip the switch. I know how to do it and what I need to do if I choose to flip it. Right now, the switch has tape over it until 2015.”

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