Quotes About Government Dependency

#1. Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Paul LePage

#2. Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

Paul Ryan

#4. White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.

James Howard Kunstler

#5. Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Mitt Romney

#6. Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

Iain Duncan Smith

#7. Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Rick Perry

#8. Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.

Dan Groat

#9. I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

George Pataki

#10. You can never fully trust the validity of quotes on the internet.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for your pills? A hero.

Greg Gutfeld

#12. The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

George Allen

#13. If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

Monica Crowley

#14. The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.

Germaine Greer

#15. How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

Ted Cruz

#16. Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.

Maurice Flanagan

#17. Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Rafael Cruz

#18. Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.

Birch Bayh

#19. It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#20. The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.

Ted Nugent

#21. Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

Donella Meadows

#22. Expanding a failing, big-government program that reduces flexibility for the states and traps generations of Americans in dependency is not consistent with the kind of conservative solutions that Reagan sought during his terms as governor of California and president of the United States.

Edwin Meese

#23. You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.

Jonathan Tisch

#24. Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Richard M. Nixon

#25. This could be it, I think I'm in love. It's love this time ... It just seems to fit, I think I'm in love ... This love is mine.

Shania Twain

#26. I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

George Allen

#27. What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

Madhuri Dixit