Iain Duncan Smith Quotes

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.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

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

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

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

Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in receiving social security, and the cruel and unfair Bedroom Tax.

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 Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

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

Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

There's nothing more unfair than a guy that doesn't have a job.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

Pauperism is the hospital of the labor army.

No one who wants to work should be hindered by bureaucratic restrictions and go to black market work.

Unemployed people are spoiled

Poverty causes crime.

Unemployment undoubtedly is and always has been a scourge….The real tragedy is not unemployment per se, but unemployment plus the impossibility of providing adequately for the unemployed without impairing the conditions of further economic development.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.