Paul Ryan

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

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

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt anything but neutral and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

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.

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.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.

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

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government low taxes reasonable regulations and sound money which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety, is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare and we're going to stop it.

When it comes to jobs President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

In a clean break from the Obama years and frankly from the years before this president we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth or hard limits on the size of government and we choose to limit government.