Orrin Hatch Quotes

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

Could we do without the social safety net, without Social Security, without Medicare, without farm subsidies, without unemployment compensation, without school lunch programs, without housing assistance? Of course we could. But we would not be a civilized society and we would not be an American nation any of us would be proud of.

To help people who do not have any hope, helps you.

You shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother, but ... lend him sufficient for his need.

We should remember the poor.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

None of the lower orders need suffer for an hour, the Poor House is open.

If any of thy brethren be poor …, thou shalt lend him sufficient.

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Canada has always been there to help people who need it.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

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

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.