Handout Quotes

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

Government is good at one thing. It knows how to cripple you and then hand you a crutch.

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

This is how entitlement programs work. Once you habituate people to some generous government handout, they grow dependent on it. And it becomes politically perilous, if not impossible, to fully claw it back. Conservatives fought so hard to stop Obamacare 15 years ago because they anticipated fights like this one.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.

I do get free stuff.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.