David Cameron Quotes

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.

We need workfare over welfare.

Welfare reform isn't easy.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

It's up to government to make work pay more than welfare.

Jobs not welfare.

Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income.

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

It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.

Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

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.

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

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.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

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