Quotes About Policy

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a solution somewhere above the positions of each party. So from the Left, take the idea that we need day care and food supplements for people on welfare. From the Right, take the idea that they have to work for a living and that there are time limits.

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.