Paul Ryan, Wisconsin’s 1st District Congressman and Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, speaks on the House floor in advance of the vote on both the Democrat’s budget and Ryan’s alternative:
“The answers all don’t flow out of Washington. The answers come from individual Americans. That’s the power of this country. That’s the idea of this country.
“The nucleus of our country, of our society, of our economy the genius of it is the American people themselves, not Washington bureaucrats. Not the idea that we have to take more money and take more power away from the people and spend it on their behalf, and exercise it on their behalf.
“Unfortunately that is the arrogant, paternalistic notion that is being brought to the floor here by the budget that the American people are being asked to swallow. I think it’s wrong. I think its dead wrong.”
