Welfare Quotes

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
Jim Fowler

Treat, Social, Earth

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Jim Fowler

Public, Natural, Later

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

Justice, America, General

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Freedom, Lives, Cause

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Peace, Alone, Greatest

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
Evan Bayh

Public, Spirit, Congress

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
Tavis Smiley

Destiny, Start, Moon

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner

Law, Liberty, Status

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Food, School, Job

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
Meg Whitman

Health, Government, Care

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

Majority, Realise, Handouts

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
Dennis Hastert

Future, Social, Sure

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.
Suzanne Fields

Today, Why, Few

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.
Gloria Allred

Children, Single, Child

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Money, Down, Growth

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
Nick Clooney

Nation, Congress, Office

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.
Mike Fitzpatrick

School, Children, Minds

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.
Bob McDonnell

Policy, Thesis, Wrote

The welfare system in the United States is vile.
Daniel Keys Moran

United, System, Vile

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.
Ari Fleischer

Time, Government, Two

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.
Ari Fleischer

Someone, Become, Broken

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
Youssou N'Dour

Sad, Political, Control

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.
Gwen Moore

School, End, Start

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
Gwen Moore

Government, Thinking, Lazy

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
Tammy Bruce

Women, Husband, Big

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

Education, Children, May

I'm very much into animal welfare.
Teresa Palmer

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
John Kasich

Give, Public, Company

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
Charles Evers

Care, Someone, Makes

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
Jim Talent

Marriage, Work, Future

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