Paul Ryan Quotes About President Obama

Quotes about: President Obama

• Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

  Paul Ryan

  Agency, Government, Law

• Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Europe, Decision

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

• My dad died when I was young. He was a good and decent man. There are a few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. He'd say, "Son, you're either part of the problem or part of the solution." Well, regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem, and Mitt Romney is the solution.

  Paul Ryan

  Dad, Son, Men

  "'An Extreme Choice' -- What Two of Wisconsin's Leading Progressive Journalists Think About Mitt Romney's Pick of Paul Ryan" by Amy Goodman, Matthew Rothschild, John Nichols, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

• 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 Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Grandparent, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

• 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Math, Challenges

• President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Issues, Promise

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

• 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Wall, Years

  "Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

• 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?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Years, President

  "Democratic National Convention Coverage; "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?". Live Coverage of Obama's Speech in Norfolk, Virginia, edition.cnn.com. September 4, 2012.

• 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, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Anger, Frustration

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

• You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, President, Hearing

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

• I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.

  Paul Ryan

  America, President, Together

  Source: time.com

• Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes.

  Paul Ryan

  Risk, Secret, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

  Paul Ryan

  Philosophy, Believe, President

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

• President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Mistake, Long Ago

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

• President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Cutting, Clouds

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

• So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

  Paul Ryan

  Retirement, Cutting, Europe

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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