Paul Ryan Quotes

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.
Paul Ryan

Spending, Hiding, Reduce

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.
Paul Ryan

Person, Give, Try

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Paul Ryan

Real, Moral, Individual

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.
Paul Ryan

Two, Few, Language

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

Change, Leadership, Different

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.
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Country, Dream

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
Paul Ryan

Government, Matter, Off

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Equality, Live

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.
Paul Ryan

Forward, Before, Problems

This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Country, Nation

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan

History, Help, Human

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

Government, Important, Individual

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
Paul Ryan

Education, Broken, Speak

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

Try, Principles, Replace

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?
Paul Ryan

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

Mom, Kids, Generation

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.
Paul Ryan

Job, America, After

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

Power, Play, Biggest

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

Mom, Role, Model

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
Paul Ryan

Time, Smart, Before

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
Paul Ryan

Society, Country, Between

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
Paul Ryan

Government, Wisdom, Become

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.
Paul Ryan

True, Philosophy, Less

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
Paul Ryan

Change, Leadership, Hope

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.
Paul Ryan

Children, Give, America

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: January 29, 1970

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