The Best Paul Ryan quotes

The idea is not to make obamacare work better or actually authorize obamacare. — Paul Ryan

More work needs to be done. — Paul Ryan

I thInk we shouldn’t step In the way of that. we should let the presIdent work It out wIth rod rosensteIn, I hope they have a good productIve conversatIon and I thInk that’s helpful. — Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan I don’t think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper. — Scott Baio

What i think the president is trying to do here is to, again, exploit envy economics, this top–down redistribution doesn’t work. — Paul Ryan

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I’d zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming. — Scott Baio

We have a lot of work to do to get our economy back on track, and the ways and means committee will be at the forefront of reform. — Paul Ryan

The problem is They talk to people in segments, here’s our lgbt community. here’s our labor guy. that doesn’t work. you stop becoming a national party. — Paul Ryan

We sleep in our offices because We work until midnight and get up early, We don’t see our staffs. i never see my staff when i return. — Paul Ryan

We do get paid to do a job, i think if you’re going to hold an office you ought to represent the people who pay you. if you’re going to accept pay, you ought to show up for work. — Paul Ryan

We are going to respect the fbi’s investigation. — Paul Ryan

We have until, i believe, march, so i don’t think We need to have artificial deadlines within the one We already have. — Paul Ryan

I do thInk It ought to be addressed, we belIeve It should be addressed In ImmIgratIon legIslatIon. — Paul Ryan

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It’s a beautiful thing. — Scott Baio

We believe We have an obligation, a duty, to offer another way forward. to offer an alternative. — Paul Ryan

I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt. — Paul Ryan

I do belIeve that (trump) messed up In hIs comments on tuesday, when It sounded lIke a moral equIvocatIon, or at the very least moral ambIguIty, when we need extreme moral clarIty. — Paul Ryan

Obamacare is a massive budget buster, that it is creating massive deficits in the future. And I really believe it’s going to destroy the health care plan, the health care system in America. — Paul Ryan

This is a classified request. and i believe that they can honor This request without jeopardizing those issues, i expect that we will be able to have an accommodation to honor This request. — Paul Ryan

I’m still fearful of all of that, however, i have come to feel it is quite different. I’m starting to believe what my ex–wife was always telling me––that it’s safe. — Paul Ryan

We obviously want to have families reunited. i believe … dhs is working on that with hhs (department of health and human services). — Paul Ryan

I’m not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job. — Scott Baio

We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan

I feel very good about It, actually, It’s exactly where we want to be. — Paul Ryan

I feel reasonably optImIstIc. — Paul Ryan

Next year we’re going to have to get back at entitlement reform. — Paul Ryan

Tax reform is a 2015 thing for sure. — Paul Ryan

Tax reform is a 2015 thing for sure, it has to be done by the end of the summer …. if it goes back past summer, it’s hard to see how that gets done. — Paul Ryan

We’re going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit. — Paul Ryan

We should reform Welfare for businesses, with the new majority coming in, i think We’ll have more people … subscribing to the view i just mentioned. — Paul Ryan

They are wrong, we need a tax reform that can keep us growing. — Paul Ryan

This tells me there’s a formula there for getting things done, and maybe tax reform, it was a good opportunity to work with ms. pelosi in a bipartisan way to do the right thing for the country. — Paul Ryan

Tax reform is happening, not next year or next congress, it is happening now, in 2017. — Paul Ryan

He’s exactly right, but the defense budget is not the problem. discretionary spending is not the problem. it is growing the economy and getting entitlement reform. — Paul Ryan

What i think we need to do is win an election, get better people in these agencies and reform the tax code. — Paul Ryan

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

Shahira played an important policy role during the crafting of our tax reform plan and i look forward to working with her on our larger legislative agenda. — Paul Ryan

I thInk there stIll Is an opportunIty for compromIse on thIs, but I thInk It stIll needs more tIme. — Paul Ryan

I don’t have an iPod. I don’t get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some ’70s music, some ’80s music, and that’s it. — Scott Baio

He clearly says and does things i don’t agree with. and i’ve had to speak up … (from) time to time wHen that has occurred. and i’ll continue to do that if that’s necessary. i hope it’s not. — Paul Ryan

We’ve had these document requests with the administration, with the fbi in particular, for a long time and they’ve been stonewalling. — Paul Ryan

And now in three months’ time we tried to go to a governing party where we actually had to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things, And we weren’t just quite there today. — Paul Ryan

I cannot and wIll not gIve up my famIly tIme. — Paul Ryan

One thing I won’t be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don’t like it, and I haven’t bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I’m on. It’s much easier. — Scott Baio

I told Paul Ryan I got ta have a relatIonshIp wIth thIs guy to help hIm get hIs mInd rIght, because, I’m tellIng you, he dIdn’t know anythIng about government… I wanted to scold hIm all the tIme. — Paul Ryan

We give the poWer to congress because We fear the perpetual war that Went on in europe, at this particular time, there are no limits. — Paul Ryan

I wanted house speaker Paul Ryan to gIve us tIme. I dId n’t want thIs to be rescInded on day one and create chaos. — Paul Ryan

President trump is wasting no time acting on his promises, we look forward to working with the President to build on these actions and deliver results for the people. — Paul Ryan

I thInk It Is a good bIll, I thInk we wIll be able to put together a daca compromIse that has a majorIty support from our party. — Paul Ryan

We Were a 10–year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do. you just had to be against it. — Paul Ryan

Life is too short no matter what party you are with. — Scott Baio

Our party has lost its vision and we’re going to replace it with a vision. — Paul Ryan

We ‘ll cross these bridges when We get to it, but i do believe that We will be able to unify as a party. — Paul Ryan

When i see something that runs counter to who we are as a party and a country, i will speak up. — Paul Ryan

If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people’s prejudices. — Paul Ryan

I want to talk about our Ideas, our solutIons and how our party should unIte … around our common prIncIples and how we apply those prIncIples to problems. — Paul Ryan

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government–imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. — Paul Ryan

I thInk what you’re seeIng Is we’re goIng through the InevItable growIng paIns of beIng an opposItIon party to becomIng a governIng party. — Paul Ryan

It illustrates that although the fec splIts on party lines, they don’t splIt for partisan advantage. — Paul Ryan

Is it too late for the party to change the rules ? — Paul Ryan

You’re here celebrating the death of 17 children. — Paul Ryan

I’m the not the micromanager of the house. i’m the speaker of the house. — Paul Ryan

Obviously last friday was regretful. Obviously, house republican members did not want to see house republican members members take down the farm bill. — Paul Ryan

The house has The president’s $ 5 billion for The wall. The house is There. we have never been The issue here, but ultimately, The president and senate democrats have to come to agreement as well. — Paul Ryan

You’re looking at some of the top conservatives in the house. — Paul Ryan

I strongly dIsagree wIth father conroy’s recollectIon of our conversatIon, I am dIsappoInted by the mIsunderstandIng, but wIsh hIm the best as father conroy contInues to serve the house. — Paul Ryan

We’re working hand in glove with the white house, the president is all in on this. — Paul Ryan

I am pullIng the fIre alarm rIght now, Is what I’m doIng In the democratIc party, I belIeve we are In denIal of what’s happened, and I’m pullIng the fIre alarm because the house Is burnIng down. — Paul Ryan

Senators have made clear that this is an effort to keep the process alive, not to make law. if moving forward requires a conference committee, that is something the house is willing to do. — Paul Ryan