Ryan is a total Ayn Rand fanboy:
"I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight were engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, thats what I tell people."
"I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are."
"Its inspired me so much that its required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. Theres a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well."
"But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."
"And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivismthat Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivismyou cant find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
"Its so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rands vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are."
"Because there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rands writings and works."
Audio Surfaces of Paul Ryan's Effusive Love of Ayn Rand - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
"I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight were engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, thats what I tell people."
"I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are."
"Its inspired me so much that its required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. Theres a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well."
"But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."
"And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivismthat Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivismyou cant find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
"Its so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rands vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are."
"Because there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rands writings and works."
Audio Surfaces of Paul Ryan's Effusive Love of Ayn Rand - Politics - The Atlantic Wire