Action Quote by Murray Rothbard

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

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

This resounding cry of 'welfare to work' enrages me because something like 75% or 80% of people who are on government assistance are already working.

— Stephanie Land

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare…

— Cesar Chavez

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

— Peter C Goldmark Jr

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in…

— Martin O'Malley

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more…

— Van Jones

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the…

— Charles Koch

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