Welfare Quotes

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

I mean, she's giving and caring and genuinely concerned about the welfare of others. I can't be with someone like that.

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

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

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

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.

I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision [for bringing] awareness to the most important animal-welfare issues worldwide.

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

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.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

If there were more women heads of state in the world, the world would be more peaceful and better focused on the improvement of the overall quality of life and welfare.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.