Welfare Quotes

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
William Julius Wilson

Work, Family, Social

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
George Crook

Great, Spiritual, Before

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.
Pratibha Patil

Work, Strong, Sense

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Nguyen Cao Ky

Person, Difficult, Far

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
Jeffrey Donovan

Life, Mom, Else

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

Country, Social, System

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
Jeanne Tripplehorn

Government, Through, Child

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.
Richard Schiff

Change, Hate, America

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Another, County

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.
Henry Knox

Good, Between, Balance

It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
Daniel Dae Kim

Love, Home, Community

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
Friedrich List

Around, Common, Principle

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
Kent Conrad

Real, Used, Times

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
Mel Carnahan

Health, Care, Training

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
Mel Carnahan

Successful, Community, Needs

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
George Gilder

Family, Wife, Children

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
John Hawley

Confidence, Knowing, Interest

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Charles Erwin Wilson

Good, Thought, Country

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
James Roosevelt

Success, Fact, Lies

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.
Todd Rokita

Government, Bad, Reason

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
John Marshall Harlan

Thought, Body, Public

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
Enrique Pena Nieto

True, Once, Public

And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
Theodore William Schultz

Good, Men, Freedom

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