Quotes About Welfare

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.

All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages.

Article III The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Where could she be going with all them kids? The welfare office wasn't open. She was greeted with the friendly caution that women hold toward unmarried women who repeatedly have children—since they aren't having them by their own husbands, there is always the possibility they are having them by yours.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of a British sense of fairness.

The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.

I don't think we can have democracies that work where most of the people are not benefiting economically, where most of the people are worried about their job security.

You cannot be against a raise in the minimum wage and for cutting government assistance and still say that you are worried about the people living in poverty.

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers' money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

There are too many people coming out of school and heading into a life of nothing. They go straight on the dole or into crime.

Education and health are among our top priorities.

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.