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A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

Quotes by William Vickrey

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Quotes by will.i.am

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

Quotes by Warren Giles

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.

Quotes by Townsend Harris

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.

Quotes by Tom Coburn

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

I'm very much into animal welfare.

Quotes by Teresa Palmer

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

Quotes by Suzanne Fields

Stopping new illegal immigration - preventing the effects that will have on our schools, on our hospitals, on our welfare system, on our wage earners - will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.

Quotes by Stephen Miller

At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

Quotes by Simon Kuznets

Resources are a trust of the nation, and each and every penny is being spent on public welfare projects honestly.

Quotes by Shehbaz Sharif

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

Quotes by Sheikh Hasina

It's never been clearer that unrestrained market forces do not produce the kind of societies we aspire to - economically stable and socially inclusive, where citizens have access to secure jobs with the dignity of a fair wage and a welfare safety net.

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

I have a track record of under-promising and over-delivering, whether it's on the economy, border protection, welfare reforms.

Quotes by Scott Morrison

We do know the welfare system, starting in the '60s, basically encouraged the dissolution of marriage, encouraged families to separate in order to get the benefits.

Quotes by Scott Garrett

We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

Quotes by Samantha Power

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

Quotes by Rush D. Holt, Jr.

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

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

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.

Quotes by Robert Scheer

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Quotes by Robert Scheer

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

Quotes by Robert Casey

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

Quotes by Rick Scott

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

Quotes by Piyush Goyal

Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

Quotes by Peter Navarro

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Quotes by Pauline Hanson

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

Quotes by Nick Clooney

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Quotes by Newt Gingrich

Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.

Quotes by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Quotes by Montesquieu

The Citizens United ruling opened the door for tax-exempt social welfare organizations to spend substantial portions of their funds on campaign activities, without having to disclose where that money came from.

Quotes by Michelle Lujan Grisham

Exclusively should mean exclusively, and money used for campaign purposes should kept separate from money used for the promotion of social welfare.

Quotes by Michelle Lujan Grisham

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Quotes by Mel Carnahan

We cannot be the welfare state of the planet.

Quotes by Maxime Bernier

A Conservative party that supports free markets should also advocate the end of corporate welfare.

Quotes by Maxime Bernier

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

Quotes by Martin McGuinness

In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs.

Quotes by Mario Cuomo

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Quotes by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Quotes by Louie Anderson

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

Quotes by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Quotes by Larry Elder

While boosting the production of consumer goods, we should channel great efforts into improving the welfare service for the people.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

Quotes by Kelly Preston

My fans are indulging in social welfare activities from time to time and have also been helping economically backward students.

Quotes by Karthi

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

Quotes by Jonathan Mayhew

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Quotes by John Sulston

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

Quotes by John Sharp

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.

Quotes by John Marshall Harlan

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

Quotes by John Kasich

In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

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.

Quotes by Jim Wallis

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

Quotes by Jeffrey Donovan

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

Quotes by Jefferson Davis

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

Quotes by Jeb Bush

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

Quotes by Jeb Hensarling

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

Quotes by Jeanne Tripplehorn

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Quotes by James Surowiecki

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

Quotes by James Roosevelt

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

Quotes by James L. Buckley

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Quotes by Jacques Delors

The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

We need workfare over welfare.

Quotes by Jack Kingston

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

Quotes by Iain Duncan Smith

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

Quotes by Henry Knox

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Quotes by Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment for crucial members of the Democratic base.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

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.

Quotes by George Will

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

Quotes by George Osborne

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.

Quotes by George Pataki

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Quotes by Gene Simmons

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.

Quotes by Gaby Hoffmann

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.

Quotes by Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Quotes by Friedrich List

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

Quotes by Friedrich List

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

Quotes by Evan Bayh

Our failed population-centric approach to Afghanistan has only led to missed opportunities, which is why Afghanistan depends on donors for 90% of government revenues. A smarter, trade-centric approach will boost Afghanistan's long-run viability by weaning it off donor welfare dependency.

Quotes by Erik Prince

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

Quotes by Erik Brynjolfsson

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

Quotes by Enrique Pena Nieto

I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.

Quotes by Eli Yishai

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Quotes by Edward Thorndike

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

Welfare reform isn't easy.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

Quotes by Denny Rehberg

PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine.

Quotes by Denise Dresser

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

Quotes by Dayananda Saraswati

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

Quotes by David Miliband

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

Quotes by David Cameron

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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