Paul Ryan is a true conservative.
RYAN: The president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past. He's going from town to town impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats and engaging in intellectually lazy argument as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes on job creators.
RYAN: Instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were the hallmarks to his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy, and resentment. This has the potential to be just as damaging as his misguided policies. Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger.
RYAN: Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country. Corporate welfare that enriches the powerful and empty promises that betray the powerless.
RYAN: This is what I call "the fatal conceit of progressivism." It's upside down. It's the presumption that money and wealth made and created in America is the government's unless they benevolently expend it back to people.
RYAN: No one is saying we don't need good schools and roads and infrastructure as a basis for a free society and a free enterprise system. But the notion that the nucleus of our society is the government and not the individual -- the family, the entrepreneur -- is, to me, just completely inherently backwards.
