Welfare Quotes - Page 12

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

  Jacques Delors

  Desire, Excess, Responsible

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• Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Children, Water, Parks

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• I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

  Eminem

  Mom, Mother, School

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• I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Daughter, Mother, Two

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• I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, Lazy, Laziness

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• I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

  Lupe Fiasco

  War, Fighting, Night

  "Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. Mach 3, 2011.

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• 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.

  Barney Frank

  Welfare Programs, People, Effort

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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, Citizens, Weight

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

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• Having what I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

  Paul Ryan

  Successful, Growth, Helping

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

  Paul Ryan

  Political, Patronage, Cases

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Elderly, Organization, Volunteer

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• The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

  Robert Scheer

  Book, Issues, Reform

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• Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

  Rick Scott

  People, Drug, Study

  "Rick Scott says welfare recipients are more likely to use illicit drugs" by Aaron Sharockman, www.politifact.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

  Gene Simmons

  Jobs, Believe, People

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

  Mark Skousen

  People, President, Addresses

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• The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

  Mark Skousen

  Charitable Work, Organization, Important

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• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  Tavis Smiley

  Running, Moon, Destiny

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• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Years, Reform, Unfair

  "Duncan Smith shakes up benefits in bid to cut costs and increase job incentives" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2010.

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• Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Fall, Hard Work, Government

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• 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.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Believe, People

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  War, Thinking, Years

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". Interview with James Chapman, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Vote

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• Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Mean, Hands

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• The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Crow, Expansion

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• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Income, Benefits

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