Meet the Press   |  January 27, 2013

Ryan talks lessons learned from 2012 race

Former vice presidential nominee discusses the things he learned from the 2012 presidential campaign and the future of the GOP.

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>> what did you learn from your run for the vice presidency and being mitt romney 's running mate? what did you take away as a republican as you look to the future?

>> it was a great experience. i feel that i benefited tremendously from that. my family got to see a lot of the country. we got to see countless people who just feel so passionate about their country. the other thing i learn was mitt romney would have been one heck of a great president. he is a very good man. the big regret i have is we didn't win the election and weren't able to put the reforms we think are right for the country in place. and now we're going to have to use this tool of divided government to try and make it work.

>> what do you think the party should learn from the loss?

>> obviously, we have to expand our appeal. we have to expand our appeal to more people and show how we'll take the country's founding principles and apply them to the problem was the day, solutions to fix our problems. we have to show our ideas are better at fighting poverty, better at solving health care , how our ideas are better at solving problems that people experience in their daily lives. and that's a challenge we have to rise to. and i think we're up for it.