Quotes About Welfare Dependency

#1. 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

#2. Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.

Mel Carnahan

#3. Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.

Allyson Felix

#4. Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Howie Carr

#5. When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!

Kenneth Kamler

#6. If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

Rick Warren

#7. Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don't want to mind. Mind the things that get closer to your mind and mind your mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!

John Patrick Hickey

#9. We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

John Vasconcellos

#10. It was who they were, and it was who they always would be. They would remain forever in lust and forever in love, for theirs was a love that transcended body and mind. Theirs was a love of the soul.

--Mistletoe (2012) by Lyn Gardner

Lyn Gardner

#11. The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

David Cameron

#13. That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

Paul David Tripp

#14. When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

George Pataki

#15. Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

Gloria Steinem

#16. I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

Gray Davis

#17. What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Susan Sontag

#18. A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive.

Gloria Steinem

#19. Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Christine Pelosi

#20. Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

George Will

#21. To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

George Eliot

#22. 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

#23. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.

Stephen Chbosky

#24. False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Socrates

#25. South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

Nguyen Cao Ky