Paul Ryan Quotes

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party engineered their defeat. The Republicans, some members, don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party illustrates what they have to do to win and they're not really comfortable with that.

I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.

I think his [Bernie Sanders] campaign was good for the Democratic Party, good for our country. And I know how passionate he is about the issues he cares about. So we'll have a long list of matters to discuss when we sit down.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

I've always thought that the Republican Party should be for things and not so much against things.

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

The Democrat’s worst fear is that somebody, somewhere is making money. And the Republicans are afraid that people are having fun. Well, we like to do both.

The Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the same in some ways ... To stay in power you've got to give people a good life and improve the economy.

Republicans can win without capitulating to multiculturalism.

The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

The caricatures that the mainstream media and the Democrats have about Republicans have taken hold.

There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.

The Democrats throw money at the problems, and the Republicans tend to ignore them. The Natural Law Party goes beyond those approaches. It's about true change.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.