Kelly Cutrone Quotes

I don't believe in welfare.

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

I believe in a safety net. I believe one of the responsibilities of the Federal Government is a safety net.

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

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

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

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

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.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

The more 'adequate' we make relief, the more people we are going to find willing to get on it and stay on it indefinitely. The more we try to make sure that everybody really in need of relief gets it, the more certain we can be that we are also giving it to people who neither need nor deserve it.

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Even in the United States, 'you have a sort of welfare state, even if you don't want to admit it -- you don't allow people to die on the street.

At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?

To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

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