Degrading Quote by Barbara Castle

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and…

— Doug Bandow

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to…

— Ross Kemp

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice…

— Irving Kristol

“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is divided on…

— Werner Neff

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

“Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some of its…

— James T. Patterson

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people…

— Thomas Sowell

Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who first introduced…

— Ha-Joon Chang

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

— Stephen Moore

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got…

— Clint Eastwood

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.

— William J. Clinton