Tim Ryan Quotes:
You beat China by outcompeting them, by dominating the new technologies: wind, solar, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing. We should be reinvesting back in the United States and beating them on the economic playing field.
Tim Ryan
We have a perception problem with the party. We are perceived as being a coastal elite, Ivy League party that does not connect to working-class people. The waitress, the teacher, the construction worker – we’ve lost our connection to them.
Tim Ryan
I’ve been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.
Tim Ryan
Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.
Tim Ryan
And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.
Tim Ryan
I got a lot of respect for Nancy Pelosi. I love her. She was a mentor of mine.
Tim Ryan
I think our failure as a caucus has been not to focus on economic issues. I think we – and I’m supportive of all the issues that – that we talk about, but you need an economic – a robust, economic message that – that covers everybody.
Tim Ryan
The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio – these states that Donald Trump came in and won.
Tim Ryan
I have a chicken-wing addiction… I sometimes can’t get out of a restaurant without at least trying their chicken wings. So that’s my great downfall.
Tim Ryan
It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.
Tim Ryan
Being tough on China is one thing. Being completely erratic with no strategy and dragging businesses and farmers through the mud, using them as pawns in the game, is not the way to beat China.
Tim Ryan
I just find Bobby Kennedy’s short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.
Tim Ryan
We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one.
Tim Ryan
We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can’t be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.
Tim Ryan
Trump committed crimes. It’s pretty clear. Although I’m not sure how it plays out politically, I do think you have a responsibility to act when you think – and there’s ample evidence to show – that the president has been engaged in criminal conduct.
Tim Ryan
To be competitive globally, we have to reduce the corporate tax rate.
Tim Ryan
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
Tim Ryan
We can’t just be the party of redistribution of wealth; we need to be the party of the creation of wealth in communities all over the country, not to just Silicon Valley, not just Wall Street, but all over.
Tim Ryan
There’s no better inside player than Nancy Pelosi, and I don’t have any animosity towards her.
Tim Ryan
If we could figure out the big economic question – which really is how do we get wealth out of the coasts and into the industrial Midwest and start creating real jobs by the hundreds, if not by the thousands – in places like I represent, that’s a game changer for me.
Tim Ryan
We can’t green the economy without the power of the free-market system.
Tim Ryan
You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises… but you can’t be hostile to businesses because 98 percent of businesses are small business people.
Tim Ryan
I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we’re going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.
Tim Ryan
I’m a progressive who knows how to talk to working-class people, and I know how to get elected in working-class districts. Because at the end of the day, the progressive agenda is what’s best for working families.
Tim Ryan
I’ve got a really long record around progressive politics, especially when it comes to the economy. Voted against the Bush tax cuts. Voted against the Trump tax cuts. Believe in investment into lifting people up, closing the opportunity gaps that exist in our society.
Tim Ryan
I think once you meet me, you realize I’m not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I’ve been on the picket line. I’ve been in the union halls. I’ll drink a Miller Lite with you.
Tim Ryan
We need to be a party saying, ‘We are not going to be happy until we get those $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs back for working-class people.’
Tim Ryan
Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.
Tim Ryan
Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, but we need the power and innovation that comes from the free enterprise system. There’s no way we’re going to decarbonize the American economy without innovation and the profit motive. It’s just not gonna happen.
Tim Ryan
I’ve been in Congress 14 years. I’ve been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.
Tim Ryan
I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven’t been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.
Tim Ryan