Paul Ryan Quotes

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

I voted to send people to war.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

I want to say to the American people, we hear you. We will do right by you.

Donald Trump heard a voice out in America that no one else heard.

Donald Trump is a pretty casual guy. He calls me Paul.

Let's lower our tax rates on our businesses so that we're on par with the rest of the world so that we don't keep losing our businesses.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

I think conservatives should be confident in our beliefs and go push them everywhere we can and go to non-traditional communities. It's a no-brainer.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.

Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.