Mia Love Quotes

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

My agenda for national public service would provide a pathway to the middle class for all Americans and would ensure that those who dedicate themselves to their communities are rewarded for their efforts.

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

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Democracy’s opportunity. Here is the opportunity to be of service to the people. Here is the chance for this party to have been of service to the people of the United States. Here is our chance to have been of help to the poor man. Here is our chance to have relieved him of the burdens and to have given him the benefits of a government that could have promoted the enterprises and furnished the conveniences and the facilities needed by every man, woman, and child in this country.

The deeper purpose of democratic government is to assist as many of its citizens as possible - especially those who need it most - to improve their conditions of life, to retain all personal liberty which does not adversely affect their neighbors, and to pursue the happiness which comes with security and an opportunity for recreation and culture.

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.

Give everybody a chance to work. You'll see how quickly family values will follow.

Politicians should tell working Americans what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. And what they need to hear is that it is possible for all Americans to have good lives, even if the can’t all have good jobs.

It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.

Women do not want to be dependent on government but want opportunities for all Americans to succeed.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.