Timothy Griffin Quotes

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.

Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make fitting response.

I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.

We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

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.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

We're moving more and more toward user fees, but the people who use social service programs obviously don't have the ability to pay for them.

We need government to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

If the people are not getting what the people need, you shouldn’t be paying for it.

Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them — take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

We have not abandoned our old belief in liberty, justice, and Self-help, but we say that under certain conditions the people cannot help themselves, and that then they should be helped by the State representing directly the whole people.