Paul Ryan Quotes

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

We are in the midst of the largest improvement in health care in our nation’s history.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

We will have health care reform in America.

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

I say to people who are opposed to the Affordable Care Act, What is the alternative?” I don’t hear any answers.

Obama had the wherewithal to muscle through an entire health care reorganization, right? Like it, don't like it, whatever.

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

We are pushing for Medicare-for-all. That's an economic issue - it really is. And if we can work toward a fair, more-equitable system for working families, everybody would have health care.

We cannot allow the Trump administration to invalidate our nation's health care law.