Paul Ryan Quotes

Let’s make the poor richer.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

We've got to take care of the poor.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.