Newt Gingrich Quotes

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

You know where nice people end up? On welfare.

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

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

I don't believe in welfare.

Food stamps are an investment in our future.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

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

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax.

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. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.

I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

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.

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.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

You don’t just cut off a bread subsidy after 60 years.

I believe in a safety net. I believe one of the responsibilities of the Federal Government is a safety net.