Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?

My plan includes Dependent Care Savings Accounts to encourage savings and help families meet their needs for caring for both children and elders.

Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

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

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

[Donald] Trump November 2016 could truly be the long-awaited wake-up call America desperately needs.

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.