Welfare Quotes

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan

Success, Leave, Measure

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Public, General, Popular

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Great, Justice, Sense

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Works, Degree

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan

Far, Purpose, Possible

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

Work, Anyone, Walk

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

Trust, Government, Job

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

Mom, Different, Year

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

Fear, Control, Mothers

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus

Tyrants, Particular, Alibi

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney

Work, Long, Political

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Barack Obama

Country, Energy, Another

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
Jack Kingston

Love, Experience, Society

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell

State, Masses, Egos

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Charles de Montesquieu

Democracy, Dangerous, Public

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

Power, Social, Duty

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
Todd Tiahrt

Children, Focus

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel

Time, Give, Attention

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
James H. Douglas

Family, Good, Health

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
Paul Ryan

Money, Successful, Small

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Newt Gingrich

Future, Down, Proud

Most women are one man away from welfare.
Gloria Steinem

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
David Cameron

Work, Worth, While

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
Rush Limbaugh

Around, Sure, State

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Charles Evers

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.
Rush Limbaugh

Food, While, President

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke

Happiness, Good, Service

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
Newt Gingrich

Job, Important, America

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.
Jim Fowler

Life, Thinking, Learn

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
Grover Norquist

Time, Person, Him

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