Paul Ryan Quotes

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

We just can’t be the party of NO. We have to be the party of solutions.

No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind a strategy to defeat them.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.

He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto.

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Only I can turn this country around.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

We’re not sent here to poll well. We’re here to make a difference.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

Words have consequences and SAG-AFTRA members deserve leadership that is interested in the path forward, not a return to the divisiveness of the past. I am proud to provide that leadership.

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question of our racial enlightenment.

I think that is what the electorate is looking for - they are not looking for a pretty face to lead the country. They are looking for someone who can give them hope, who can promise them change and who can tell them this is your hands and you have the ownership of how you want to steer the country forward.

I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

Progress is often just a good idea away.