Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare'…

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That…

— Charles Boustany

Weirdly enough, the best thing that ever happened to black people in the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J. Simpson verdict because…

— Ann Coulter

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the…

— Helen Keller

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