Paul Ryan Quotes

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

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

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.

Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.

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

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.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Each budgets reflect our priorities, reflect our principles, reflect our vision. We believe in balancing the budget. We believe in getting government to live within its means. We believe in pro-growth economic policies, energy exploration, fixing our entitlements before they go bankrupt.

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.

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

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

Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I`m fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well.

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

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

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

I think conditions on the ground determine what you need in a particular area.

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

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.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair.

I voted to send people to war.

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

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

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