Quotes from Paul Ryan

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.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

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.

I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

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.

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.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

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

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

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.

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.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

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.

Donald Trump turned politics on its head.

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.