Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
And the same goes for government benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the… — Peter R. Orszag Copy Share Image
I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands. — Diane Garnick Copy Share Image
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image