We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. – Paul Ryan
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. – Paul Ryan
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. – Paul Ryan
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, Im a numbers guy, thats my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and Im in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. Thats exactly what I should be doing. – Paul Ryan
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country