Paul Ryan

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

We see ourselves in the House as sort of the engine room of the ship of the Republican Party. We're down in the bottom... in the bowels shoveling coal into the furnace. And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with coal.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

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.