Quotes from Paul Ryan

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

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?

Keep your money in the first place. Let's make our companies competitive and let's make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what's good for Washington carve outs.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

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.

The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

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.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

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.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

We're a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.

My mom's now enjoying Medicare. She's already retired. She earned it. But for those of us, you know, the X-Generation on down, it won't be there for us on its current path.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us.