Etc Quote by Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor…

— Barney Frank

We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the…

— Edward Snowden

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

— Joseph Lowery

Can we have a serious conversation about improving the integrity of our poverty programs in this country?

— Mark Meadows

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And…

— Robert Sirico

I don't want to say that the poor are inherently cognitively diminished, but at the end of the day of making difficult, tough decisions,…

— Dan Ariely

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be…

— Molly Ivins

“Democrats should reevaluate a lot of our assumptions about which policies are politically viable. These trends make universal programs even more appealing than we…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the…

— Sasha Abramsky

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

— Maxine Waters

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the…

— Thomas Sowell

“How the public felt about government aid to the poor seemed to depend on how the question was put. Both parties, and the media,…

— Howard Zinn