Milton Friedman Quotes

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

We could have free immigration if we did not have a welfare state. In principle I would like to see free immigration.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

The day where America can be the welfare system for Mexico is gone.

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

A third of all the children born today will be on welfare.

Even in the United States, 'you have a sort of welfare state, even if you don't want to admit it -- you don't allow people to die on the street.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.

My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.

If freedom of movement is to be sustainable, then our publics must see it as freedom to move to work, rather than freedom to choose the most generous benefits.

We are concerned about benefit tourism.

Public support will dwindle if the public thinks that free movement means undermining of social security systems... we need to get that right.

Stopping new illegal immigration - preventing the effects that will have on our schools, on our hospitals, on our welfare system, on our wage earners - will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.

I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico.

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

There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax.