Children Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal…

— George Gilder

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

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

— Irving Kristol

The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients,…

— Mona Charen

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success:…

— Niall Ferguson

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

— Louie Anderson

Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

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

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system…

— Emily Thornberry

For a long time the Conservative party gave the impression of not being terribly interested in the people who were on welfare and that…

— David Gauke

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

— Grant Shapps

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