John Stossel Quotes

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

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.

People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.

Could we do without the social safety net, without Social Security, without Medicare, without farm subsidies, without unemployment compensation, without school lunch programs, without housing assistance? Of course we could. But we would not be a civilized society and we would not be an American nation any of us would be proud of.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

I do not believe in welfare. Therefore, I am the first presidential candidate in American History who qualifies for Federal matching funds, who will not take them.

New Jersey is not going to give the money earned by average taxpayers to millionaire sports owners and give government subsidies to sports teams.

People dislike government spending in the abstract, but the like government spending when they see the benefit.

Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make fitting response.

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.

People who receive mortgage tax relief … do not consider themselves to be benefits of government largess and can thus blithely talk about the government as something irrelevant to their lives except as a tax burden.

The vast majority of Americans—about 96 percent—benefit from some kind of government social program.

When they [Trump voters] get a [government] benefit. they assume that God gave it to them, But most people don’t want to pay for someone else’s undeserved benefits.

When they [most people] get a [government] benefit, they assume that God gave them it to them, But most people don’t want to pay for someone else’s undeserved benefits.

I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves, won't lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.