Rush Limbaugh Quotes

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

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

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

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

Welfare reform isn't easy.

Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it.

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.

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.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants.

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.

It’s been a very slow, very expensive business—reforming the welfare state.

[Advocating health care reform:] We've got to remove the incentive for people on welfare to stay on welfare because that's the only way they'll get health care.

The Social Security System is the one great social policy achievement of the twentieth century.

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.

We need workfare over welfare.