Paul Ryan Quotes

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

I supported the stimulus package.

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.

Who do you have coming to see you about the subsidies? Business people, no one else.

Unemployment relief from The CARES Act - a popular and bipartisan solution - was a key lifeline not just for our families but also for small businesses.

Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks

If it was up to me, I would have put more money into the state fiscal relief.

I'm grateful to the state and central government for all their support for my academy.

I don't go to the federal government and say, 'Fund my program.'

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.