MO Quotes

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.

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.

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

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.'

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

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

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

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

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

We shouldn't have to give up all our rights, just because we are receiving a Government benefit.

We don’t want to turn this [social] safety net into a hammock that ends up lulling people in their lives into dependency and complacency.

When they [Trump voters] get a [government] benefit. they assume that God gave it to them, But most people don’t want to pay for someone else’s undeserved benefits.

The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

Taxpayers' and 'people on benefits' are not two separate and distinct groups of people.

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.

Indeed, one of the least-talked-about dangers of our ever-expanding entitlement culture is that it threatens the viability of these necessary programs for those who genuinely need and use them as a bridge to a better life.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

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.

Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?

Public support will dwindle if the public thinks that free movement means undermining of social security systems... we need to get that right.

The important thing for the government to do is to help people who cannot help themselves by providing a range of support.

I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.

I was on the dole.

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.