Welfare Policy Quotes

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

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

I do not believe in welfare. Therefore, I am the first presidential candidate in American History who qualifies for Federal matching funds, who will not take them.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

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

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.

PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine.

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

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

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

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

I'm against means-testing. I think when people pay into it, it's a trust, they ought to get it back. And I believe the benefits should keep up with inflation.