Quotes About Welfare

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower the light in my darkness, the voice in my silence I believe that only in broken gleams has the Sun of Truth yet shone upon men

When providing employment becomes the end, need becomes a subordinate consideration.

Only that which is truly given, answered the bell-like voice. Only that good which is done for the love of doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of others is the master thought. Only those labors in which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only those gifts in which the giver forgets himself.

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

In 1978, when I was a non-Congress chief minister, we distributed surplus wheat among labourers. Later, when we visited a village, I asked a labourer whether he knew who sent the wheat. 'Yes, Indiraji - only Indiraji helps the poor.' Indiraji was a symbol for the weaker sections.

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I will be working with the Administration for Children's Services and others to bring about necessary reforms - and ensure that our city meets its most solemn responsibility - protecting the welfare of our children.

I, along with many of my Republican colleagues, believe there is so much more we can do for those who are trapped in our social safety net programs. But we are limited by the level of discourse with which of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are willing to engage.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.

You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

The legitimate object of government," he later asserted, "is 'to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

New York law required that shipowners guarantee that each immigrant passenger would not, upon arrival, become a candidate for public welfare.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

Abolishing "welfare as we have known it," as the Clinton administration managed to do, was a way of enlarging the pool of vulnerable, low-wage workers with no other option but to become, if they were able, employees at will, no matter the terms and conditions of their work. What

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.