Welfare Quotes - page 4

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due. (Liz Murray)
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. View quote
Nicholas A. Christakis
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality. View quote
Tibor R. Machan
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. View quote
Edward Thorndike
I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing. View quote
Vera Farmiga
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. View quote
Al Capp
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness. View quote
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. View quote
Charles Evers
We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building. View quote
Dick York
The welfare system in the United States is vile. (Daniel Keys Moran)
The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge. View quote
Erna Solberg
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. View quote
Evan Bayh
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. View quote
James H. Douglas
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. View quote
Jim Talent
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. View quote
Jack Kingston
The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change. View quote
John Monks
I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way. View quote
Kelly Preston
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. View quote
Larry Elder
Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. View quote
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. (Mel Carnahan)
Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state. View quote
Monica Crowley
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office. View quote
Nick Clooney
I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people. View quote
Richard Schiff
Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. View quote
Rick Scott