Tucker Carlson Quotes

There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.'

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

It is not in accordance with the genius of our Government or our country to pay pensions.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.

No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.

If you throw a welfare state into the middle of a democracy, it’s very hard to get rid of the beast.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

I'm a product of Federal spending.

Welfare is killing this country.

A mature welfare state is always broke.

Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them — take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

Even in the United States, 'you have a sort of welfare state, even if you don't want to admit it -- you don't allow people to die on the street.

What begins in Washington as simple, garden-variety grasping becomes an entitlement, the argument being that the longer the benefit has lived, the more the beneficiaries have built their lives around it, so ending it would be disruptive.

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax.

Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...