Thom Tillis Quotes

Reduction of dependency is the greatest unmet need in social policy today.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

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

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.