Dominic Raab Quotes

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

We need workfare over welfare.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

It’s been a very slow, very expensive business—reforming the welfare state.

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

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

The Social Security System is the one great social policy achievement of the twentieth century.

We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you're on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, you're not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work.

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

The national framework of social insurance - social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers' compensation - protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn't or wouldn't insure.

If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?

No one is suggesting societies the world over should implement an expensive basic income system in one stroke.