Everyone Quote by Nick Boles

The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their…

— David Cameron

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to…

— Ross Kemp

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually…

— James Cook

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved…

— Iain Duncan Smith

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That…

— Charles Boustany

Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare…

— Henry Giroux

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

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want…

— Jim Stanford

The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the…

— Michael Lewis

What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect…

— David Cameron

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also…

— Jacques Delors