Nikki Haley a star: Speaker Paul Ryan

Indian-American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is a star and did a "really good job" with her impressive response to President Barack Obama's last State of The Union address, US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan has said.
"I think Nikki [Haley] is a star... I think she's made her point pretty well, which is, as conservatives we've got great principles, great ideas. And these are inspirational, these are optimistic ideas, these are inclusive ideas," Ryan told USA Today in an interview.
"And that means we have a conservative set of philosophies and principles that give us policies that actually should be inclusive and appealing to people," he said.

"I believe what Nikki Haley did is go out and help win converts to conservatism, which is something I think is necessary for us to do if we're going to have to win the kind of election we have to win to put the policies in place we need to put in place to save the American Idea for the vast majority of Americans who don't believe it's there for them anymore," Ryan said in response to a question.
Top Republican leadership in the US Congress today hailed the nine-minute speech of Haley, who is seen as a potential Republican vice presidential choice.

"I think that she did a really good job. I thought she was really impressive in her remarks and delivered very, well. And I think presented a face and a voice for our party that really is what we're all about," said Senator John Thune, Chairman of the Senate Republican Committee.

Senator Thune and other Republican lawmakers were speaking to reporters at a joint House and Senate Republican retreat in Baltimore.
They were responding to questions about Haley's speech in which she also jabbed her party's presidential frontrunner Donald Trump by urging Americans to resist "the siren call of the angriest voices" on immigration.

"That is growing our majority obviously, reaching out to more people across this country, presenting ideas that we think are compelling and that will attract people to join our vision," Thune said.
"We have different people who have different ideas and different ways of communicating and different style and tone. But I thought that she did a nice job, I think at least, of reflecting what many of us here are talking about this week," he said.
"That is a pro-growth agenda for the American people, one that reaches out and tries to attract more people for our cause," Thune said.