Destitute Quote by Jacob G. Hornberger

Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life.…

— James Cook

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So…

— Gail Collins

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

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

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice…

— Irving Kristol

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

I think Welfare Reform did more harm than good, but one piece of good it did was it changed the attitudes of Americans. If…

— David Beckmann

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

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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

— Grant Shapps

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

— Ann Coulter