Patty Murray Quotes

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

We've got to take care of the poor.

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Some welfare programs in the past have not been well-designed. They increased dependency.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

With Ronald Reagan in the White House, somebody had to look out for those who were not so fortunate. That's where I came in.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

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