Ronald Reagan Quotes

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them — take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Mr. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals were not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Barack Obama sincerely believes that.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

I grew up poor.

Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they're going to vote.

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.