Matthew Lesko Quotes

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help I - and my son - needed.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

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

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

Catholic Charities is already one of the largest government contractors in the United States.

Welfare is killing this country.

I never knew an instance of the English parliament's undertaking to relieve the poor, by a distribution of bread in time of scarcity.... I think, that according to the principles of their government, they would only vote a sum of money, and address the King to employ it for the best.

We're moving more and more toward user fees, but the people who use social service programs obviously don't have the ability to pay for them.

55 percent of the national budget consists of entitlements. These are established by law but do not get funds appropriated annually—not part of the usual give and take of the Congress and the administration. If you meet the criteria of the law, you get the money.

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.