Welfare Quotes

817 Welfare quotes by 578 unique authors

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. — Craig T. Nelson
All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a… — Foxy Brown
Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the… — Rick Santorum
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end… — Ron Paul
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ...… — Ron Paul
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own… — Ron Paul
For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive… — Newt Gingrich
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. — Mel Carnahan
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. — Mel Carnahan
Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs. — Mel Carnahan
This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen… — Andrew Forrest
Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change. — Unknown Author
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one… — Unknown Author
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for… — Dennis Hastert
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. — Murray Banks
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on… — Rush Limbaugh
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… — Thomas Jefferson
Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare,… — Alexander Hamilton
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to… — James Madison
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps.… — Michele Bachmann
By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and… — Rush Limbaugh
We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us… — Malcolm X

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