Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

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