Welfare Quotes - Page 30

• I don't believe in welfare.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

  Charles Evers

  Funny, Black, Worst

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• Welfare mothers make better lovers.

  Neil Young

  Mother, Quality, Lovers

  Song: Welfare Mothers

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Practice, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.

  Ol' Dirty Bastard

  Years, Pussy, Politics

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• To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Mouths, Politics, Ten

  Song: Calling Mr. Welfare, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

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• The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Needs, Citizens

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.480, Best Books on

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Safety

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, Desire

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• Dancin' in the welfare lines.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Dancing, Lines

  Song: Weasel and the White Boys Cool, 1990

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• I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

  Buck Owens

  Waiting, Lines, Endearment

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• The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Country, Needs, Social

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• To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

  George Mikes

  Achievement, Stupidity, Goes On

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• The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.

  Dan Quayle

  Cutting, Government, People

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

  Friedrich List

  May, Individual, Checks

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”

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• Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

  Friedrich List

  Principles, Looks, Common

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”

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• I'm very much into animal welfare.

  Teresa Palmer

  Animal, Animal Welfare

  "Teresa Palmer Interview - DECEMBER BOYS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. September 9, 2007.

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• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  James Rollins

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, People, Justice

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• Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

  Frances Fox Piven

  Mother, Poverty, Crime

  Frances Fox Piven (2012). “Lessons for Our Struggle”, p.12, Haymarket Books

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

  Jack Kemp

  Thoughtful, Reform, Debate

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• The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.

  Erna Solberg

  Answers, Way, States

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