Paul Ryan is an American politician and the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. With a long list of achievements during his political career, he represents the State of Wisconsin as an elected official. Here is a look at some of the best Paul Ryan quotes ever documented.
“Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.”
“And to this day, my Mom is my role model.”
“Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It’s corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.”
“Donald Trump heard a voice out in America that no one else heard.”
“Donald Trump is a pretty casual guy. He calls me Paul.”
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.”
“Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you’re feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.”
“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.”
“Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.”
“I don’t subscribe to relativism, whether it’s in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I want to say to the American people, we hear you. We will do right by you.”
“If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.”
“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.”
“If you don’t want to use your tax credit to go by health insurance, you don’t have to. If you don’t want to buy this plan, you want to buy that plan, go for it, it’s your choice. It’s called freedom. It’s called free market health care.”
“If you’re a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income.”
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Tax reform is about more jobs, fairer taxes, and bigger paychecks.
Great to be with @seanhannity tonight to talk about all that and more. pic.twitter.com/tSG4K9hTzP
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) September 28, 2017
“Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.”
“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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
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“So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?”
“That’s the real secret to job creation – not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.”
“The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.”
“Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.”
“To borrow a phrase from my friend Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, we are the healthiest looking horse in the glue factory. ”
“We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.”
“We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.”
“We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.”
“We need to stop spending money we don’t have.”
“We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.”
“We`re putting ourselves – we`re basically double taxing made in America products. And so what we`re saying is let`s equalize this so that we`re on a level playing field, so that American-made goods and services are on a level playing field with the rest of the world.”
“What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.”
“You’ve got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.”
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