Orrin Hatch Quotes

In their zeal to show compassion, liberal community activists are quick to offer government handouts and, in the process, convey the message that people are incapable of making it on their own.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Last year in the United States alone over $98 billion was distributed in unearned government transfer payments and other aid to millions of men and women who most often did nothing for what they received. This character-weakening government dole is repeated in almost every nation of the world. We encourage Latter-day Saints everywhere to remain free of government assistance. Work for what you receive.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each other.

Personal accountability and responsibility is dying. Long live the Democrat welfare state.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.'

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.