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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

#enterprise #entrepreneurs #free #free enterprise #hone

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#i #me #our #policies #polls

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

#because #course #entitlement #every #every time

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. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#challenge #confront #control #crisis #debt

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#ayn #ayn rand #collectivism #credit #fight

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

— Paul Ryan

#four #others #responsibility #spend #take

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#country #credit #debt #downright #facing

oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from. ↗

— L.A. Weatherly

#funny

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

#bring #campaign #cannot #clearly #distortions

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#by the time #children #like #mine #nearing