Rahm Emanuel Quotes

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

We continue the policy of not permitting any needy American who can and is willing to work to starve because the Federal Government does not provide work.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Corporate welfare bums.

Let’s make the poor richer.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty

Prohibiting Poverty

We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, where we put people in bondage so they can't be all that they're capable of being.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.

We need workfare over welfare.

When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.

We in the Congress Party are hoping to do greater efforts to help the people of India, especially the downtrodden who find it very tough to get ahead in life. We are focusing on tackling issues related to unemployment and poverty.

When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.

Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower the cost of increasing health premiums.