Jim Talent Quotes

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

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.

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

If you work, you should not be poor.

The American home, a steady job, an opportunity for the children to go to school properly nourished is the way to combat communism.

Money is ammunition and the surest way I know to make lasting friends, to earn trust and create peace is by providing meaningful jobs, putting people back to work so they can feed their families.

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.

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against 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.

A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.

Three things are very important to Hispanics: being able to have a job, making sure your child gets an education that prepares them to get a job, and living in a safe community.

Whether it's making sure that a person has access to a doctor when they need one, investing in excellent first class educations for our children or making sure that working people are able to provide for their families and put food on the table when they put in an honest day's work, I will continue to put people and families first.

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

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

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

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.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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