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" 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
More
Debt
Just
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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
Decisions
Control
Future
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
You
Look
People
" Everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off, because there is worth and goodness in every life... That is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will? "
Paul Ryan
Life
Goodness
Republican
" Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. "
Paul Ryan
History
American
Help
" 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
Going
Me
Said
" If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. "
Paul Ryan
Borrowing
More
Money
" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "
Paul Ryan
Believe
Liberty
Happiness
" We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. "
Paul Ryan
Feet
People
Speak
" We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds. "
Paul Ryan
Government
Commitment
Succeed
" This is what life is like with the Clintons. It is one scandal after another, and you never know what's coming next. They use the system to enrich themselves. "
Paul Ryan
Never
System
You
" The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy. "
Paul Ryan
Control
Economy
Just
" 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
Government
Inequality
Tax
" If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices. "
Paul Ryan
Person
People
Party
" We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. "
Paul Ryan
Responsibility
Believe
Government
" I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. "
Paul Ryan
Silent
Seen
Power
" 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
Know
Control
" Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget. "
Paul Ryan
Too Much
Budget
I Am
" 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
Leadership
Today
Heard
" A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year. "
Paul Ryan
Win
America
Authority
" When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work. "
Paul Ryan
War
Culture
Change
" We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. "
Paul Ryan
Problem
Care
Health
" 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. "
Paul Ryan
Responsibility
Choices
Free
" 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
Veil
Drops
Now
" In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government. "
Paul Ryan
Growth
Choice
Size
" 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
American
Blessed
Government
" The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. "
Paul Ryan
Belief
Better
Government
" As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party. "
Paul Ryan
Party
Challenge
Become
" I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. "
Paul Ryan
Political
Ambition
Policy
" If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws. "
Paul Ryan
Law
Change
Congress
" 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
Work
Change
College