Safety Net Quotes

• A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

  Henry Kravis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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• I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

  Mitt Romney

  Safety, Needs, Election

  "“So Rich, So Poor”: Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 23, 2012.

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• The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Together We Can, Safety

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

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• Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

  Allen West

  Believe, Compassion, Safety

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• Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

  Kunal Nayyar

  People, Safety, Risk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

  Grace Napolitano

  Years, Ideas, People

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• We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

  Paul Ryan

  People, Safety, Hammocks

  "Paul Ryan Wants ‘Welfare Reform Round 2’" by Arthur Delaney, Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Struggle, Heart

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• Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

  James T. Walsh

  New York, Safety, Vulnerable

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• A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

  Ari Fleischer

  Safety, Income, Levels

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• If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

  Susan Rice

  Jobs, Past, Opportunity

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• I think that we need to be more aware of how we are all interconnected, and how we actually need to invest in safety nets and in education, and that we need to come to the realization that health care is a human right and try to provide that for people.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Thinking, People, Safety

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, People, Safety

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• I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

  Benjamin Carson

  Safety, Want, Dependency

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• We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

  Rand Paul

  Cutting, Safety, Pennies

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• There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

  Howard Schultz

  Wind, Safety, Scary

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• When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it

  Robert Kirkman

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Safety, Goes On, Poor

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• Here's why I think the public service jobs are almost unavoidable: When we have downturns in the economy - and we will, for we haven't repealed the business cycle - unemployment will build, yet we no longer have any safety net. What are we going to do? Unless we decide to pull out all the stops and lower interest rates immediately and risk turning a recession into wild inflation, we're going to have to figure out some way of providing some more, not job security, but employment security.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Safety, Risk

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Drama, Thinking, Safety

  "Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany Is Scared Of Comedy". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 16, 2013.

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• If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do that other thing, you've gotta make sure you're doing that. Sometimes you've gotta take away your own safety net. But if you feel miserable in a day job, in any job, get out of that. Look for something else. Stay in that job until you have the other thing set up, and then go to that other thing. But sometimes you've just got to jump out with a parachute and trust that you're going to land someplace safe.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Ambition, Safety, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or not, Germany, a country characterized by high wages, strong unions, a social safety net, and so forth is the second largest exporter (after China) in the world. The idea that the only way to succeed is by eliminating vacations, sick days, worker protections, and so forth is simply belied by the competitiveness rankings produced by the Economist magazine's intelligence unit and by the World Economic Forum.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Order, Safety

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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