Paul Ryan Quotes

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

We're going to bring jobs back to this country. I think that is one of the reasons I'm going to do well with the African-Americans and Hispanics.

Jobs not welfare.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

I'm going to create tremendous jobs. And we're bringing GDP from, really, 1 percent, which is what it is now, and if Hillary Clinton got in, it will be less than zero. But we're bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

I believe the best social program is a job.

What people want now, they want jobs. They want great jobs with good pay. And I'll tell you, we're spending a lot of money on the inner cities - we are fixing the inner cities - we are doing far more than anybody has done with respect to the inner cities. It is a priority for me, and it's very important.

I think that there is a strong argument that our [USA's] leadership, our strength, our influence begins with having an economy that is producing good jobs with rising incomes, and I see the connection there.

I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.

I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.