Jeff Van Drew Quotes

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government.

India's future has to be built on the foundation of social protection of the economically and socially handicapped sections.

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?

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

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.'

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

If businesses are being given relief, shouldn't the same relief be given to the American people?

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

When they seek to cut programs that help families living in poverty, I will fight them every step of the way.

There are very few people on welfare who like it.

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society ... staples without which human life could not exist.

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 have the spectacle, still to be seen today, of the western rancher who accepts federal aid for his cattle operations and federal aid for his grazing requirements, but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern him, and the philosophy that lies behind them.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

The thing that the government does very well is to write checks. Get rid of all the bureaucracy and programs and just write check [to the poor].

[There should be] a legal guarantee of subsistence for all the destitute ... whether deserving or not.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.

Food stamps are an investment in our future.

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.

Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.