Paul Ryan Quotes

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.

What is this War on Poverty? Money is going to people in Chicago who are against me.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

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

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

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The War on Poverty did not work because it was a war on shame … a war on the family and a war on God.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Can we have a serious conversation about improving the integrity of our poverty programs in this country?

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

We do know the welfare system, starting in the '60s, basically encouraged the dissolution of marriage, encouraged families to separate in order to get the benefits.

Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.