#iv

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#america #authority #bold #case #effectively

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive. ↗

— Marat Safin

#survive #to survive #up #wake #wake up

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#best #civil #civil society #displace #economic

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#ayn rand #epistemology #give #give me #going

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

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

#abraham lincoln #alike #assure #been #commitment

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#conditions #create #entrepreneurship #government #important

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#america #calling #children #generation #give

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#capital #creation #death #deprives #discussion