Anatoly Dobrynin Quotes

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

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.

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, where we put people in bondage so they can't be all that they're capable of being.

Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.

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.

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

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

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.