Sam Brownback Quotes

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

There is not enough wealth in the cities to redistribute it from those who are wealthy to those who are poor.

A third of all the children born today will be on welfare.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

One of our most unfortunate believes is that a person who lives on welfare is not only unfortunate, but somehow defective.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

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

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.