Todd Young Quotes

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.

We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you're on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, you're not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work.

The government's goal is to provide income support for families most affected by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and job reintegration.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

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

Some welfare programs in the past have not been well-designed. They increased dependency.

Unemployment payments are now made for 99 weeks. That is the time it takes to get an Associate’s Degree. Establish the principle that we do not give money away for doing nothing.

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.

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

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.