Get Off Welfare Quotes

#1. 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

#2. America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

Tracy Morgan

#3. Badger had been waiting with ever increasing certainty for that brown, government stamped envelope, to hit the floor with the impact of several atomic bombs; the shockwaves hitting him before the sound could penetrate his ears.

Paul Howsley

#4. Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

John F. Kennedy

#5. I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.

Wanda Sykes

#6. The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

Robert Breault

#7. In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.

Joel Salatin

#8. I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

Harvey Weinstein

#9. Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Dalai Lama

#10. Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Gautama Buddha

#11. If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Gloria Steinem

#12. The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#13. It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Charles Edison

#14. We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#15. Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. My mandate ... is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children ...

Olara Otunnu

#17. Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Ellen Goodman

#18. And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

Bill Maher

#19. Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.

Dick Gregory

#20. The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.

Shelton Smith

#21. I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

Iain Duncan Smith

#22. Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there: Get off the couch and get yourself a job.

Paul LePage

#23. If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

Dalai Lama

#24. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Michael Eric Dyson

#25. One man's warfare is another man's welfare.

Timothy Pina

#26. The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Thomas Sowell

#27. Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Nicola Sturgeon

#28. Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Jim Fowler

#29. True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

Ameen Rihani

#30. The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Mark Steyn

#31. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it ... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Robert A. Heinlein

#32. Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Alexis De Veaux

#33. I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Will.i.am

#34. Aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

Ronald Reagan

#35. she worked and prayed for the welfare of humans for over ten million years. Then she was transformed into a goddess whose only desire was to ease the world's pain.

Kris Waldherr

#36. Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.

Ralph Raico

#37. It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

Robert Higgs

#38. He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always i a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#39. The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency

Eva Cox

#40. 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.

Edward Thorndike

#41. If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

Mos Def

#42. Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins