#welfare

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

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. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. ↗

— George Crook

#before #go #great #indians #looking

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#becomes #degree #exactly #fellow-men #great

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

— David Miliband

#centrally #education #housing #over #prescribed

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

— Ronald Reagan

#eliminate #existence #far #need #own

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#creates #incentives #lead #long #negative

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

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#county #indifferent #people #welfare

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. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#failed #federal #federal government #government #his

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#conflict #markets #open #open markets #state