Quotes About Welfare

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.

I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

Our failed population-centric approach to Afghanistan has only led to missed opportunities, which is why Afghanistan depends on donors for 90% of government revenues. A smarter, trade-centric approach will boost Afghanistan's long-run viability by weaning it off donor welfare dependency.

It is simply unacceptable for people to sneak into this country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued I.D. on Friday, head for the welfare office on Monday, and cast a vote on Tuesday.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Modi implemented welfare schemes, and U.P. became its major beneficiary in barely two years.

Resources are a trust of the nation, and each and every penny is being spent on public welfare projects honestly.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.