Quotes by Paul Ryan

About Paul Ryan:

Paul Davis Ryan is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the United States Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district since 1999 and as Chairman of the House Budget Committee since 2011. He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 election.
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What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that fro...

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We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

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President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, d...

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The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do t...

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Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

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Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote pro...

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

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Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

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The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

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

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

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

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Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

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We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

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Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

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We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

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While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

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

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Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicar...

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If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Ryan
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornJanuary 29, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician