Paul Ryan Quotes - Page 6

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• What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

  Paul Ryan

  Impact, Decisions We Make, Today

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• 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

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• I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

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  Math, Long, Take Me

  "Paul Ryan: 'I don’t have the time' to explain tax plan" by Jane C. Timm, www.msnbc.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

  Paul Ryan

  Ideas, Pro Life, Records

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• The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Offering, People

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

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• By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

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  Children, President, Failing

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• And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Pitfalls, Looks

  "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again". Speech at a 2005 Atlas Society event, atlassociety.org. April 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Generations, Want

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• If you’re going to criticize, you should propose.

  Paul Ryan

  Should, Criticize, Propose

  "Fussbudget" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. August 06, 2012.

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• People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

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  Winning, People, Reform

  "Fussbudget" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Pain, Party, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

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  Rights, Government, Community

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• I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Atheist, Philosophy, Views

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• We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

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  Children, Opportunity, Firsts

  "Paul Ryan Is Faking It Until He Makes It" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I think the identity politics that have been played, particularly the class-warfare version of identity politics that has been played, has put America into a class-based society - more so than at any point in my lifetime.

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  Thinking, America, Identity Politics

  Source: www.nationalreview.com

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• I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

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  Block, Kind, Grew Up

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

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• Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

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  Party, People, Political

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Believe, President

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

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• In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

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  Country, Thinking, Identity Politics

  Source: www.nationalreview.com

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• My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

  Paul Ryan

  Brother, Dad, Thinking

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

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• There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Health, Government

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• We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

  Paul Ryan

  America, Care, Layers

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• That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Real, Secret

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers.

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  Doctors, Way, Becoming

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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