Ronald Reagan Welfare Quotes

#1. I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Ronald Reagan

#3. It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Alain De Botton

#4. The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

Ronald Reagan

#5. I was always afraid to write music.

Dory Previn

#6. I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.

Cliff Sloan

#7. When gender non-conforming people cross paths with sexually confused and repressed people, shit hits the fan.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#8. Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Ronald Reagan

#9. We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

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

Ronald Reagan

#11. The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

Ronald Reagan

#12. The Democrats in the legislature agreed with us that welfare costs were headed for the stratosphere but claimed the solution was a huge tax increase - in other words, to keep pouring more money into a bucket that was full of holes.

Ronald Reagan

#13. Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

Ronald Reagan

#14. The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

Ronald Reagan

#15. People were tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers; and they were angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who thought all of mankind's problems could be solved by throwing the taxpayers' dollars at them.

Ronald Reagan

#16. To my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

George Eliot

#17. Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

Dylan Thomas

#18. I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.

Catherine Deneuve