Social Assistance Quotes

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.

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.

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.

We have a class of welfare in America—lawyers and others who can't imagine how they would make a living without a monthly check from Chrysler, Toshiba or whatever.

Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief.

Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives to work and to save both of those who receive it and of those who are forced to pay it. It may be said, in fact, that practically every measure that governments take with the ostensible object of 'helping the poor' has the long-run effect of doing the opposite.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

I don't believe in welfare.

Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.

[Referring to young mothers:] You've got to be poor, or unwed, or incompetent to get something from the government. Otherwise you get nothing.

We don’t want to turn this [social] safety net into a hammock that ends up lulling people in their lives into dependency and complacency.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

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

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

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

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.