David Duke Quotes

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

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

We need workfare over welfare.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

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

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

It's about time we make welfare contingent upon birth control.

In the past, the public assistance programs have been too much concerned with the mere dispatching of monthly checks. … it is high time that some concerted effort be made to get people off the rolls who can sustain themselves.

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

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

I think what the Conservatives have done, scaling back welfare payment, is overwhelmingly positive. There's only a certain amount of welfare they can give out.

Welfare reform isn't easy.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

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.

Some welfare programs in the past have not been well-designed. They increased dependency.

I believe in a safety net. I believe one of the responsibilities of the Federal Government is a safety net.

We want the States to have a work and training program. We want the States to see to it that those who are drawing an unemployment check … unless there is a good cause for them not to, to be required to take … training and then work …

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