#stead

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. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#expansion #family #family structure #generation #measure

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#inefficiency #insist #instead #need #raising

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#child #custody #cut #deal #divorce

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#exporting #government #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

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

— Giorgio Napolitano

#country #current #excessively #forms #instead

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#bill #done #instead #must #needs

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#about #actively #each #enough #excite

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#instead #pen #scalpel #torch #uses

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#breakthrough #focusing #having #i #instead