Top 45 Tim Ryan Quotes

It’s a lot easier to negotiate and be skillful from the majority. I want Paul Ryan negotiating with us. I don’t want to have to negotiate with Paul Ryan.

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you’re there. When I’m interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one.

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.

My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.

The key to – and magic of – good campaigns is when you pull people together. You unite them around a common theme.

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.

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.’

I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents.

I got a lot of respect for Nancy Pelosi. I love her. She was a mentor of mine.

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.

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.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

The American people need to know we understand that they elected us to fight for economic opportunity for all. We need to create America 2.0 – a multicultural, progressive, and innovative country that fights every day for ordinary people.

I’m for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

Wherever you interact with people, you have the opportunity to influence people. This isn’t something you necessarily jam down somebody’s throat, but it is something you can – gently and over time – begin to cultivate wherever you are.

I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s. We watched businesses move overseas throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating’s work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

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.

I’ve heard from CEOs of major corporations and members of Congress talk about their spouses getting mad at them when they’re home because they’re spaced out and thinking about work. It’s so easy for all of us to have our mind on the last meeting or the next one.

I wrote ‘A Mindful Nation’ to promote the values of slowing down, taking care of ourselves, being kind, and helping each other. It seems to me that if we embrace these values individually, it will benefit us collectively. And our country will be a little bit better off as a result.

I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.

If you’re a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

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.

I have come to believe that we must trust women and families – not politicians – to make the best decisions for their lives.

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.

There’s no better inside player than Nancy Pelosi, and I don’t have any animosity towards her.

We need a brand as a party that says we’re the party that are going to help working-class people, white people, black people, brown people, gay people, straight people, improve opportunity for them to grow their wages, to have security, economic security.

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.

I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.

Democrats must adopt a progressive economic message that focuses on large, direct infrastructure investments, affordable health care, portable pensions, and public-private investments that promote advanced manufacturing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

If you’re a coach and your team doesn’t win, at some point you’ve got to change the coach.

We focus sometimes too much on the minimum wage, and we should be talking about living wages and middle class wages and pensions and benefits and the kind of thing that people in the industrial Midwest talk about all the time.

For most of us, starting off in the morning, your iPhone wakes you up, you immediately start checking emails or texts or whatever, and you’re up and running until you go to bed.

When I talk about ‘working class,’ I don’t talk about ‘white working class,’. I talk about ‘working class,’ and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

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.