Robert Charles Winthrop Quotes

Healing Advices for the Poor

None of the lower orders need suffer for an hour, the Poor House is open.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

When they seek to cut programs that help families living in poverty, I will fight them every step of the way.

Needy children are eligible for assistance if their fathers are deceased, disabled, or family deserters. In logic and humanity, a child should also be eligible for assistance if his father is a needy unemployed worker—for example, a person who has exhausted unemployment benefits and is not receiving adequate local assistance.

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income.

To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

I get that money is important, and it's scary to think that you won't have enough. At the same time, we can set up reasonable social safety nets and take care of everybody.

Look, there are people hurting in this country. We have to find solutions to make their lives better, right?

The important thing for the government to do is to help people who cannot help themselves by providing a range of support.

Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.

I disagree with those who say welfare is a waste of money. It's a good means to creating new jobs.

I'll always be known reaching out to young people who have no one to help them out, so I help them out with a place to stay or some food to eat or some change for their pocket.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.