“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all. 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
“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”
– Paul Ryan
“The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I’ve tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, ‘Let’s get this done’ – and that is exactly, what we’re going to do.”
– Paul Ryan
“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
“The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I’ve tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, ‘Let’s get this done’ – and that is exactly, what we’re going to do.”
– Paul Ryan
“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
“That’s what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they’re stuck in some class or station in life.”
– Paul Ryan
“Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.”
– Paul Ryan
“Hey, I’m a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.”
– Paul Ryan
“And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.”
– Paul Ryan
“I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.”
– Paul Ryan
“I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms – the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.”
– Paul Ryan
“We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.”
– Paul Ryan
“To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment – especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.”
– Paul Ryan
“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.”
– Paul Ryan
“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.”
– Paul Ryan
“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”
– Paul Ryan
“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.”
– Paul Ryan
“That’s the real secret to job creation – not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.”
– Paul Ryan
“We need to stop spending money we don’t have.”
– Paul Ryan
“What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.”
– Paul Ryan
“When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.”
– Paul Ryan
“If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.”
– Paul Ryan
“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.”
– Paul Ryan
“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.”
– Paul Ryan
“And to this day, my Mom is my role model.”
– 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
“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all. 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
“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
“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.”
– Paul Ryan