Conventional wisdom Quote by Jane Mayer

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

— Rush Limbaugh

“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch that also…

— Matt Taibbi

In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the…

— Nina Easton

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who…

— David Duke

“As President Clinton was fine-tuning his plan to “end welfare as we know it,” a conservative reformer by the name of Jason Turner was…

— Matthew Desmond

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

— Bernie Sanders

The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that…

— Robert Scheer

You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the…

— Charles Murray

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor…

— Robert Scheer

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

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and…

— Ari Fleischer

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape…

— Todd Tiahrt