Paul Ryan Quotes

America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she believes in the principles and values of the Constitution.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

I would consider myself American in the way of what the actual idea that's in the Constitution is, not the way that it's performed: All men are created equal, freedom for all, that's something that I obviously believe in. I don't consider myself American because I'm not sure if those are the values that we actually prioritize as much as we need to, but I consider myself American if you look at the Constitution.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Beyond independence, Americans had no consensus on what being an American meant.

The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

The American people understand that what makes the nation great is not people's bloodlines or how long ago their ancestors arrived here, but their character and belief in the Constitution.

I believe in the country America used to be.

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

If we’re going to pass on the meaning of America to the next generation, it doesn’t happen in the bloodstream. You actually have to teach what America is to the next generation.