Rand Paul Quotes

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

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

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

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

People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.

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

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

I disagree with those who say welfare is a waste of money. It's a good means to creating new jobs.

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

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.

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.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

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.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

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.

We believe that the federal government is responsible to give every man employment or a guaranteed income.

It is not in accordance with the genius of our Government or our country to pay pensions.

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

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary purposes and its intended beneficiaries.

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.