Welfare Programs Quotes

The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

It is not in accordance with the genius of our Government or our country to pay pensions.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.

An unexpected pregnancy in a poor household often becomes a public burden down the road. Studies show that a public investment of $1 for family planning saves $4 in future costs like food stamps and other public assistance.

If it’s liberal to feed the hungry and house the homeless, you can call me a liberal. If it’s liberal to make sure a young mother can see a doctor when her baby’s sick, call me a liberal.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

Sometimes Republicans want to cut the social welfare programs and yet they ask for billions and billions more for the Defense Department. I don’t take that approach.

On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I'm a strong conservative.

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than in any other wealthy country.

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

You know where nice people end up? On welfare.

India's future has to be built on the foundation of social protection of the economically and socially handicapped sections.

'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.