Welfare Quotes

Welfare is not a retirement plan.

— Ernie J Zelinski

Welfare sucks, literally.

— Rock Cowles

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

— Joe Orton

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

— Plato

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

— C. A. Bartol

I don't believe in welfare.

— Charles Evers

Don't squeeze me... I'll fart.

— Ramandeep Singh

“They don’t give me welfare. I take it.”

— Maya Angelou

Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal.

— Donald Trump

God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

— Anonymous

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

— Stephen Reid

We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

— George Osborne

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

— Al Capp

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

— Piyush Goyal

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

— William Reynolds Archer Jr

I am satisfied with my achievements in terms of both development and welfare. I have not only lived up to most of…

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses…

— Shelby Steele

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and…

— Angus King

In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely…

— Tenzin Palmo

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses…

— Daniel Schorr

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing…

— Peter Drucker

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound…

— Sathya Sai Baba

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll…

— Jim Fowler

The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to…

— W. A. Criswell

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable…

— Star Parker

The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out…

— Ole Hallesby

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -…

— David Boaz

It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt…

— F. A. Harper

If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to…

— Stephen Moore

We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon…

— Newt Gingrich

The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of…

— Kenneth Arrow

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the…

— Otto von Bismarck

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct…

— H. P. Lovecraft

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label…

— Ron Paul

Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we…

— Melissa Gira Grant

... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.…

— Joycelyn Elders