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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Hair Small Story

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Life Morning Mom

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Ideas Me Know

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Great Politics

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Life College Childhood

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Morning Thinking Door

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Freedom Opportunity

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

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Government Believe Liberty

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.

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Paul Ryan Nature God Government

We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Work Culture Men

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Freedom Country

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.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Children American

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan American Direction People

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

Paul Ryan Control Me Understanding

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

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Politics Past Down

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

Paul Ryan Change Why Question

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

Paul Ryan Today Political Fiscal

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Change Hope Blame

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

Paul Ryan Life Work Change

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Time Responsibility Man

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

Paul Ryan Work Change Culture

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

Paul Ryan Competition Choice Care

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.

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Paul Ryan Retirement People Want

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

Paul Ryan Quality Problem Care

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

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Job Problems People

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Ideas Free Risks

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Day Role Model Role

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Generation Protect Kids

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.

~ Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Path Know You

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

Paul Ryan Commitment Believe

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

Paul Ryan Know Why You

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

Paul Ryan Good Fear Little Things

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

Paul Ryan Life Sister Me
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