Mark Steyn Quotes

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.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

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

I don't believe in welfare.

If you throw a welfare state into the middle of a democracy, it’s very hard to get rid of the beast.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

I believe in a safety net. I believe one of the responsibilities of the Federal Government is a safety net.

Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.

I think most Americans believe in a basic social safety net.

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.

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

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.