When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019

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Paul Ryan was speaker of the us house of representatives from 2015 to 2019. Paul Davis Ryan is an American politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election running alongside Mitt Romney, losing to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour
  • Change — Embracing transformation, growth, and new beginnings

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