Safety Net Quotes - Page 2

• Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

  Richard Attias

  Safety, World, Littles

  "A Focus on Africa’s Informal Economy" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

  Shirley Bassey

  Kids, Feet, Safety

  "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

  Gwen Moore

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "State Waivers for TANF Can Provide True Pathway Out of Poverty" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  People, Safety, Tough Times

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• There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll always find a church and a community. When you let go of church, you don't have that comfort, you don't have that safety net anymore.

  Michaela Coel

  Letting Go, Real, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In stand up every joke is thought about so meticulously, and one word can completely change how the audience responds. You're up there with no safety net; you can't shirk responsibility. It's your thoughts; it's your voice. You can't blame it on the writing, you can't blame it on the editor. You are just up there completely naked.

  Ari Graynor

  Writing, Responsibility, Safety

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

  Naomie Harris

  Safety, Acting, Stability

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In 1978, '79, if you were unemployed, you didn't have an phone, you didn't have a big-screen TV, you didn't have air-conditioned house, and you weren't guaranteed to be eating three meals a day. You had welfare, you had unemployment, but you didn't have the kind of government support system/safety nets that exist today. So that's a difference. But today the economic circumstances really no different.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Safety, House, Support

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I look back at the Clinton administration as eight years of a fundamental transformation in the direction of the country - toward favoring big business, and toward almost frontal assaults on the most underprivileged members of the society. It was much more than cutting the social safety net. Clinton followed that by the abuse of those at the lowest rungs of our society - in ways that I don't think Bush, for all of his manifest faults, has done to the same degree.

  Jeffrey St. Clair

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.

  William H. Macy

  People, Safety, Way

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

  William H. Macy

  People, Safety, Care

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Class, Free Education, People

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• I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Character, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise, we don`t have a country. Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges. That is, those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net, along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who`ve come here under this current corrupt administration!

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mean, Safety

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

  Manmohan Singh

  Safety, Poor, Social

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Believe, Thinking, Safety

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• I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

  Michael Skolnik

  Growing Up, People, Safety

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges. That is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who've come here under this current corrupt administration.

  Donald Trump

  Gang Members, Safety, Priorities

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the quality of our air and water for our children. Most Americans want action on climate change. You can just go through the list. Most Americans believe in progressive taxation.

  Nancy MacLean

  Children, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.

  Mariah Carey

  Thinking, People, Track

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

  Sacha Gervasi

  School, Safety, Good Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of seeing God provide when we've really stretched ourselves in giving.

  Randy Alcorn

  Adventure, Safety, Giving

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

  Manmohan Singh

  Safety, Income, Growing

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• The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.

  Ross Kemp

  People, Safety, Sick

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