Esteem Quote by Mitt Romney

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy…

— Grover Norquist

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every…

— Jesse Jackson

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

Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for clothing, for…

— Hans F. Sennholz

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the…

— Ron Paul

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the…

— Ron Paul

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

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 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 original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

— Stephen Moore