Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Amartya Sen

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Gerhard Schroder

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

Jim Fowler

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

Henry Hazlitt

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Henry Hazlitt

Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

Paulo Freire

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

Thomas Sowell

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

Alison Davis

Just give us the directions. I promise we'll show up.

Nancy Lee

That's the promise of XML, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

B. R. Hayden

I think it has real promise as long as there isn't some unexpected safety issue.

Brian Wallace

It is all about a fulfillment of a promise that was made,

Carl Jung

Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?