Esther McVey Quotes

Pauperism is the hospital of the labor army.

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Thanks to welfare's Catch-22, families receiving benefits cannot save for the future.

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.

Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.

In some of the estates, there are generations of people who have been without work, so the environment and the example passed down generations is the normality of being without work.

Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in receiving social security, and the cruel and unfair Bedroom Tax.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

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

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.