Sam Brownback Quotes

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.

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

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

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.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Let’s make the poor richer.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

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.

Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

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

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.