Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often…

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an…

— Stephen Kinzer

Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent.…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“It is a sad irony that many countries possessing natural resources with high income potential have floundered into civil strife as factions compete for…

— Guy Standing

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

— John le Carre

Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is…

— Anthony Trollope

I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare…

— Michael Eric Dyson

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch,…

— Linda Chavez

Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because…

— August Wilson

The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money…

— Laurance Labadie

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

— Abraham Lincoln

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the…

— Dennis Prager

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader