Food Stamps Quotes - Page 2

• To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Government

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

  Dolores Huerta

  Farming, Stamps, Nations

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• I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

  Nadya Suleman

  Resources, Taxpayers, Temporary

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Mean, Dark

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• If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

  Stephen Colbert

  People, Want, Corporations

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• While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

  Assata Shakur

  Cutting, Space, Fire

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

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• Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures”? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Fighting, Elderly, Office

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• I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

  Moby

  Adults, Stamps

  "A Castle for the King of Techno" by Joyce Wadler, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2011.

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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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• Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

  Allen West

  America, White, Black

  "Rep. Allen West To Black Voters: Give GOP A Chance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 27, 2012.

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• Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Men, America, Office

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• Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.

  J.A. Konrath

  Race, August, Ice

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• The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!

  Dave Lindorff

  Country, Children, War

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• How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Country, School, Garden

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• What happened to society? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Encouragement, Vision, Helping

  "Glenn Beck And Craig T. Nelson Talk About Not Paying Taxes Ever Again, For Some Reason" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2009.

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• I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Helping, Welfare, Help Me

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• Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

  Eleanor Clift

  Party, Effort, Tea

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• The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

  Johann Hari

  Grew, States, British

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012

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• I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps families in need. It's not a government handout. If anything, it's a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.

  Cory Booker

  Government, Bridges, America

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• Save your wack rhymes, hold your female.
  Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale.
  Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail.
  Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail,
  Eat a whole fish except for the tail.
  Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale,
  And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Hip Hop, Gold

  Song: On the Bugged Tip, Album: Long Live the Kane

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• I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Phones, Giving, Pay

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• We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, President, Finest

  "Newt Gingrich: Obama Is 'Food Stamp President'". www.cnbc.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.

  Michele Bachmann

  Retirement, Different, Looks

  "CBS News/NJ debate transcript". National Journal debate on foreign policy and national security, www.cbsnews.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

  Newt Gingrich

  Community, African American, Demand

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• More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Community, African American

  "What Newt said about food stamps" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. January 6, 2012.

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