Quotes About Welfare Reform

#1. 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

#2. The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Robert Scheer

#3. Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.

Alan Greenspan

#5. After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

Robert Scheer

#7. 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

#8. There's no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the 'Contract with America' was an opportunity to implement some things - like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam.

Marco Rubio

#9. Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

Kent Conrad

#10. And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Patricia Hewitt

#11. When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

David Corn

#12. A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

Jim Wallis

#13. Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

Gail Collins

#14. Blue Dogs have always acted in a bipartisan way. The Blue Dogs were the group in the Democratic side of the aisle that really pushed for the welfare-reform package that ultimately was signed into law in 1996.

Jim Matheson

#15. We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.

William J. Clinton

#16. There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Jack Kemp

#17. Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Lawrence W. Reed

#18. While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

John Sharp

#19. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper class. Abendsen, he's wrong; there would be no social reform, no welfare public works plans - the Anglo-Saxon plutocrats wouldn't have permitted it." Juliana thought, Spoken like a devout Fascist.

Philip K. Dick

#20. Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism

Tony Blair

#21. Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling
when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

Jojo Moyes

#22. I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

Kai Bird

#23. When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.

Steve Coogan

#24. The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

John Marshall Harlan

#25. Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

Charles Koch

#26. There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

Pen Densham

#27. What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state ... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

David Cameron

#28. If there are three words in the English language worse than "Got a minute?" they can only be "About last night ...

Meg Cabot

#29. We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#30. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

Craig T. Nelson

#31. Then we stay." Nodding her head at the statue, Ginger smiled. "Dolly said once that if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." "How fucking appropriate.

Tessa Bailey

#32. I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is ... the higher achievement.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#33. What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Iain Duncan Smith

#34. Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

Todd Tiahrt

#35. Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.

Wesley L. Duewel

#36. You are an old soul, fortunately housed in very lovely wrapping.

Michael Callahan

#37. I always have loved witches.

Ashley Madekwe

#38. I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform to now is welfare.

Newt Gingrich

#39. Being is presented as the foundation of all that 'there is', and Life presupposes Being, just like Wisdom or any intellectual activity 20 presupposes Life

Anonymous

#40. I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#41. After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

Iain Duncan Smith

#42. A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Clay Shirky