Paul Ryan Quotes

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

The reigning conservatives in the House and Senate felt a relief that they did not try to conceal at the fact that I was not to remain as President.

At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.

A lot of times I made the wrong choices and you learn from this, what is good, what's bad.

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

A lot of times, it takes you a while to grow, especially in this league, because year to year is different.

I wouldn't say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

People seem to think you can change cars and just get on with life. Sometimes you do, but it was quite tough for me to understand the whole philosophy and to drive the car.

It's normal to have early difficulties when you get a new manager with a new concept.

I think we're going to move forward because I think at the end of all of this, everybody is going to ultimately realize that if the Democrat Party that is the most destructive force in this country. It's not one of these Republicans. And they have to be stopped and they have to be stopped in this election if this country is to be restored to its founding principles and the ideals that the majority of Americans associate with this country.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

The Democratic party should say, "Thank you very much, but you know what, we're going back to be a big-tent party. Broad on social issues like this, we are declaring, go with your heart if you truly feel that you can be, that you are pro-life, and you wanna be pro-life, and a Democrat, go for it." The Democratic party has I think been hurt very badly in terms of its national reputation with this narrow, sort of, you can't be in our party if you don't hold the right views on abortion. It would be a brilliant political move if they opened up.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

I've had over $20 million spent attacking me. That's not grassroots money. That's money from the establishment. We have always had to take on the establishment. We'll do it again, because the Republican Party needs to turn the page and move forward. And we will.

The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually take over the Presidency moving very quickly from third-party into the Presidency.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)