Quotes About Welfare

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

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

Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Moreover, people feel no gratitude for something to which they are entitled. The very notion of grateful welfare recipients is almost comical. Many of them do not even realize that what is given to them had to be taken from someone else. They are left with the literally demoralizing notion that food stamps and welfare checks drop from the sky and are theirs by right. This warped, unhealthy view is easily passed on to children.

The study therefore concluded that if illegal immigrants were legalized, their increased welfare use would nearly triple the net federal outflow per family from $2,700 a year to $7,700 a year.

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.