Kim Campbell Quotes

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

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.

The benefits of a universal basic income overall are huge.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

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.

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

It is very difficult to reverse social benefits…

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

Social Security is a problem solving program, not a problem creating one .... Social Security is our best anti-poverty program.

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

In the past, the public assistance programs have been too much concerned with the mere dispatching of monthly checks. … it is high time that some concerted effort be made to get people off the rolls who can sustain themselves.

If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education is an essential investment.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

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.

Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty and raise living standards for the working middle class.

Can we have a serious conversation about improving the integrity of our poverty programs in this country?

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.