Richard Neal Quotes

I don't believe in welfare.

Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.

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

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

We must make children and families a national priority.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Healing Advices for the Poor

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

I believe in a safety net. I believe one of the responsibilities of the Federal Government is a safety net.

The thing that the government does very well is to write checks. Get rid of all the bureaucracy and programs and just write check [to the poor].

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.

I think the U.S. needs a better safety net... If you're a single mum or even a dual-parent working family, what do you do if you've got a sick child?

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

I care for the poor. I am the one willing to work with the poor and have a safety net we can all depend on and make people understand that nothing in life is free. You have to get back to society.

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