#welfare

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #state-benefits #welfare #change

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#agreement #anything #clinton #compromise #decided

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#budget #defense #defense budget #first #get

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. ↗

— John Kasich

#company #corporate #definition #exceed #give

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#advantage #born #daughter #dictates #drive

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#bum #businessman #cut #every #every time

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. ↗

— Barack Obama

#common #else #exists #government #job

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. ↗

— Barack Obama

#billion #coastlines #collect #companies #corporate

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. ↗

— Robert Peel

#being #citizen #community #duties #every

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess. ↗

— Todd Rokita

#because #been #believe #bigger #checks