#pen

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#choices #ever #extent #free #free person

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#call #capitalism #corporate #economics #economy

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#borrowing #employment #full #jobs #led

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

— Paul Ryan

#depends #did #founders #government #happiness

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

— Paul Ryan

#community #depends #every #her #his

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

— Paul Ryan

#four #others #responsibility #spend #take

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

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#back #belief #better #better off #brett

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#broken #dependency #education #feet #foster