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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

  Peter Wolf

  Health, Thinking, Doctors

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• But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Atheist, Children, Taken

  Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Class, Free Education, People

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• What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes the claim that without social provisions, without a welfare state, without a social contract, society can't survive. We need a foundation for people - economically, politically, and socially - where what the Right considers "entitlements" are really rights.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Safety, Welfare

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• At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  People, Safety, Tough Times

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• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Riding

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• I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

  Shirley Bassey

  Kids, Feet, Safety

  "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

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• State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

  Ian Bremmer

  Intelligent, Government, Safety

  "The End of the Free Market: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer". Interview with Scott Horton, harpers.org. May 07, 2010.

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