Paul Ryan Quotes - Page 9

Having what I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it.

Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.

I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better.

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

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this country are still ahead of us.

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.

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

We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'

We have to bring relief as fast as possible to people who are struggling under Obamacare.

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

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.

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

Donald Trump connected in ways with people no one else did.

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?

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.

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

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

The appointment of a special counsel, I think, helps assure people and the Justice Department that they are going to go do their jobs independently and thoroughly, which is what we called for all along.