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When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#appeals #emotional #fears #future #ideas

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#community #depends #every #her #his

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

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

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

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. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#could #decide #define #dishes #happiness

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

#debt #did #get #just #money

Hiding spending does not reduce spending. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#hiding #reduce #spending

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. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#collective #could #economies #equal #further

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#criticize #default #ignore #just #like