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Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
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.
There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.
The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away.'
Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.
Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
We will get our people off of welfare and back to work - rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
All my politics and campaigning has been around issues that affect women: violence against women, welfare cuts to women.
No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.
Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.
Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
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.
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
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.
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.
There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.
Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
I have a track record of under-promising and over-delivering, whether it's on the economy, border protection, welfare reforms.
The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
My fans are indulging in social welfare activities from time to time and have also been helping economically backward students.
One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.
My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.