Jack Monroe Quotes

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

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.

Thanks to welfare's Catch-22, families receiving benefits cannot save for the future.

My mother was born into a solidly middle-class family, but, as all too many Americans understand, everything doesn't always go as planned - no matter how hard you work. She died on welfare. Without the support of the state, I shudder to think of where we would have ended up.

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.

I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.

Social care from cradle to grave is a huge concern for us all.

Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.

Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and downright barbaric attack on the meagre safety net of what remains of a notion of 'social security'.

I, Daniel Blake' is a powerful and moving film. But it is a political polemic and is particularly unfair on the public sector professionals who work in Job Centre Plus, in my experience they are proactive and helpful. Completely at odds with their portrayal in the film.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.