Camps Quote by Barney Frank

Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to…

— Grant Shapps

By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should…

— Barney Frank

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of…

— Donella Meadows

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it…

— Bill Maher

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't…

— Harry Browne

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a…

— Arthur C. Brooks

A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know…

— Nat Hentoff

Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other…

— Arianna Huffington

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

— Nicholas Kristof

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot…

— John Stossel

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

— Marco Rubio