Quotes for All
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 … Read more
The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to ‘refund’ taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of … Read more
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands. Diane Garnick
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there’s something in the future for our younger workers. And we’re not about to do a welfare program. Dennis Hastert
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He’s breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he’s ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs. Christine Quinn
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. Benjamin Disraeli
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them. Barney Frank
Republicans … are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for … Read more
I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on. Andrew Sullivan