Welfare Quotes

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.