A Reagan Foundation Forum with Congressman Paul Ryan

A Perspectives on Leadership Forum with Paul Ryan on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

For more information on the ongoing works of President Reagan's Foundation, please visit http://www.reaganfoundation.org.

Paul Ryan Addresses Constitution Day Celebration 2011

"Federalism and America's Future"

The Honorable Paul Ryan speaks at the Hillsdale College Constitution Day Celebration on September 18, 2011. His speech is titled, "Federalism and America's Future." This Constitution Day Celebration was held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Congressman Paul Ryan: Social Teaching and the Federal Budget: a Catholic Politician's Views

Insight into the role faith and social doctrine should play in creating policies

From Our Sunday Visitor

By Congressman Paul Ryan

Congressman Paul Ryan

Catholic social doctrine is indispensable for officeholders, but there’s a right way and a wrong way to understand it. The wrong way is to treat it like a party platform or a utopian plan to solve all of society’s problems. Social teaching is not the monopoly of one political party, nor is it a moral command that confuses the preferential option for the poor with a preferential option for bigger government.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, indicated the right way in his gracious letter to me: “[T]he Church makes an essential contribution to society when she raises up moral principles to help guide and inform decisions about public policy in a compelling way. We bishops are very conscious that we are pastors, never politicians.”