Raul Castro Quotes

I don’t deny that Cuba poverty exists, but at least the peasants there have an illusion of progress, whereas the Bolivian lives without hope.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Bread for the Needy, clothing for the naked, and houses for the homeless.

There are only two groups I recognize in Cuba: those who wholly support the revolution and those who are joining the reactionaries.

You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.

What could be the reason that so many should be permitted to beg who are willing to work?

No one capable of maintaining himself by art or labour pretend to be poor and beg his food on pain of imprisonment.

Thorough consideration should be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro

The kind of hope I grew up with is missing in today's ghetto youth because of a breakdown in family life. It has its roots in slavery when often the father of the family was uprooted and sold down the river. The son would grow up and get married and, when he was unable to get a job because there were not jobs for a black man, he would get embarrassed that he could not support his family and walk out thinking, "my mother did it alone and my wife is no better." Well, that went on generation after generation, and it's no better today. There still are no jobs and welfare encourages the man to leave the family. One of the greatest problems facing the country is how to reconcile the young ghetto dweller with the rest of America. We have a large problem of ignorance, lack of opportunity, and divided families. I worry about how we are going to solve it. It's not just trying to persuade people to be nice and understanding. I've been as angry as anyone else. But most people define the end of anger as when you become well-off. I think as we resolve the breakdown of the black family, caused by slavery and continued by welfare, the problem will come closer to its solution

I know of only three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner.

We continue the policy of not permitting any needy American who can and is willing to work to starve because the Federal Government does not provide work.

We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance, and courage and determination.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside.