Europe Quote by Guy Standing

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

— David Miliband

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Grant Shapps

When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.…

— Jeremy Kyle

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's…

— Dennis Prager

We need workfare over welfare.

— Jack Kingston

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work…

— Patricia Hewitt

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

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people…

— Iain Duncan Smith

“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support some variant…

— Guy Standing

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that…

— Jim Talent

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