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Quotes About Support

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.
~ Tracy Morgan
It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
~ Allison Anders
Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.
~ James Surowiecki
I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.
~ Janet Yellen
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.
~ Liz Murray
Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?
~ Jeff Sessions
My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.
~ Michael Tubbs
I believe in constructive cooperation from the central government for any development and welfare schemes for Odisha. I want to work in cooperation with them for the development of the state.
~ Naveen Patnaik
I look forward to the opportunity to continue to push for the welfare of our students and the dignity of our educators' work in my role as governor.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
See, believe it or not, I actually support complete free speech not because I don't care about the welfare of the American people. I support it because I do.
~ Kat Timpf
I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.
~ Tom Noddy
Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.
~ Grant Shapps
Labour voted to increase welfare spending again and again, without considering the effect that the spending was having, either on the people it was designed to help or those working to support the system.
~ Grant Shapps
Welfare reform isn't easy.
~ Dominic Raab
I care a lot about animal welfare and children. Although I don't have children myself.
~ Deborah Meaden
Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.
~ Kerry Kennedy
My mother was born into a solidly middle-class family, but, as all too many Americans understand, everything doesn't always go as planned - no matter how hard you work. She died on welfare. Without the support of the state, I shudder to think of where we would have ended up.
~ Nina Turner
I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.
~ Grant Shapps
Opposition parties which have no concern for the welfare of Tamil Nadu or its people have been carrying out a campaign of lies. Their only aim is to criticise AIADMK which has the people's support.
~ J. Jayalalithaa
There's a thing called a 'welfare cliff,' and what happens is you get up to a threshold - which is a very firm line - and if you jump over it, then you lose all of your benefits.
~ Stephanie Land
When I saw the letter of acceptance for Snap - the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, popularly known as food stamps - it was a moment of gratitude, and brief catharsis and relief. Still, I knew it wasn't a socially acceptable means to feed my family with. I saw the memes friends posted, chastising people on welfare.
~ Stephanie Land
I believe investing in welfare is an investment in the future and in people.
~ Park Won-soon