Welfare Quotes - Page 9

• Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

  Yaya Toure

  Children, Important, Generations

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I would absolutely commit to holding a vote on the hunting ban - I think it is not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Animal, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Reform, Bills

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Airplane, Animal, Two

  "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

  Edmund Hillary

  Philosophy, Helping Others, June

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, Water, Risk

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges. That is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who've come here under this current corrupt administration.

  Donald Trump

  Gang Members, Safety, Priorities

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

  David Corn

  White, Issues, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal.

  Donald Trump

  Priorities, Abuse, Removal

  "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Back To Work, Unemployed

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Loss, Gambling

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• My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  Larry King

  New York, Father, Years

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• If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.

  Robert Hass

  Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

  Henry Giroux

  Compassion, Culture, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

  Van Jones

  Trying, Pushing, Wealth

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.

  Harry Magdoff

  Growth, Done, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

  Adam Hochschild

  Mother, Long Ago, Talking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Accountability, Deregulation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those market-driven criminogenc regimes of power that now run the commanding institutions of society, with particular emphasis on how they have transformed the welfare state into a warfare state.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Memories, Intellectual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

  Noam Chomsky

  Slavery, Association, Form

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, People, Selfless

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• Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.

  Tom Gjelten

  Welfare Programs, Health Education, Around The World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

  Ai Weiwei

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Insecure, Korea, Years

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• I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Father, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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