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I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Education
Government
Health
Rights
Woman
Law
School
Welfare
First
Looking
Every
Nixon
Civil
Civil Rights
Law School
Columbia
Head
Because
Contract
Office
Department
Then
Enforcing
Stan
Who
Why
Program
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
Simon Kuznets
Measurement
Welfare
Nation
National
Defined
Scarcely
Income
I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.
Sonny Perdue
Day
You
Welfare
Walk
First
Country
Think
Ought
One Day
Make
Office
Stop
We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
Ted Cruz
Welfare
Build
Those
Cities
Border
Border Patrol
Triple
Fence
Off
End
Patrol
Sanctuary
Them
Cutting
Funding
Here
We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.
Todd Young
Work
People
Money
Conservative
Welfare
Taxpayer
Programs
Back
Spent
Focused
Only
Putting
Welfare Reform
Proven
Been
Reform
Taxpayer Money
Initiative
Need
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
Work
People
Welfare
Political
Negative
Long
Poverty
Recognized
Both
Lead
Parties
Self-Esteem
Without
Permanent
Political Parties
Creates
Incentives
I see my future with my family, with my grandsons and daughters, and I want to look after some welfare institutions I had set up at different places in the country with the help of expatriate Pakistanis.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Future
Family
Welfare
Country
See
Some
Daughters
Had
Institutions
Look
Up
Different
Want
After
Places
Different Places
Help
Set
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Adam Carolla
Work
Education
Food
Mom
Welfare
Whatever
Programs
Those
Kind
Fine
Never
Scholarships
Like
Occasional
Any
Just
Stamp
Even
My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
Aga Khan IV
Spiritual
Welfare
Those
Only
Concerned
His
Than
Duties
Pope
Flock
Wider
I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.
Alan Greenspan
Government
Welfare
Free
Believe
Other
Stated
Deficits
Markets
Libertarian
Constraint
Free Markets
Smaller
Smaller Government
Budget
Budget Deficits
Welfare Reform
Globalization
Issues
Reform
Which
Republican
Means
Whole
Series
Including
Things
I'm, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the authority of states to make the decisions to provide for its citizen - the safety and welfare of its citizens.
Alberto Gonzales
Service
Government
You
Respect
Welfare
Safety
Citizen
State
State Government
States
Citizens
Having
Know
Make
Provide
Very
Begun
Authority
Decisions
Public
Much
Public Service
The over-60s have to be seen less as receivers - of welfare, of help - or targeted consumers, and more as participants, both in our economy and our society.
Alexander De Croo
Welfare
Seen
Society
Our
More
Both
Consumers
Participants
Economy
Targeted
Less
Help
It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
Allison Anders
Myself
Me
You
Struggle
Welfare
Job
Took
Fathers
Month
Out
Support
Make
Got
Rent
Off
Getting
Children
Your
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
Amartya Sen
Welfare
Collective
Delhi
Left
After
Social
Choice
Social Welfare
Published
My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see her kids, not just me, be successful and making money and happy and healthy and in good relationships - it means so much to her after all that she's been through.
Andrea Navedo
Time
Good
Mom
Me
Happy
Money
Welfare
Long
Long Time
Healthy
Relationships
Kid
Kids
See
Good Relationships
Struggled
Through
She
Making
Making Money
Were
Been
Up
Just
After
Poor
Then
Much
Successful
Means
Growing
Growing Up
Her
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
Andrew Young
Welfare
Black
Liberal
Rules
Up
Families
Break
Break Up
Much
Slavery
I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
Angus King
Welfare
Old
Boss
Had
Labor
Senate
Committee
Public
Worked
Bill
Public Welfare
Kennedy
Ted
Ted Kennedy
It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.
Austin Clarke
Life
Justice
Welfare
Passion
Once
Has-Been
Moral
Takes
Learn
Aroused
Been
Years
Us
Many
Deepest
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
Bahman Ghobadi
Education
Myself
Me
Welfare
Films
Complex
Proper
Almost
Like
Want
Explode
Why
Things
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
Barbara Castle
People
Law
Welfare
Humiliating
State
Relief
Degrading
Rely
Had
Mainly
Welfare State
Test
Provided
Very
Poor
Means
Receiving
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.
Barney Frank
People
Welfare
Sense
Programs
Those
Objects
Had
Perfectly
Supported
Enact
Were
Historically
Efforts
Legislation
Which
Them
Poor
Poor People
Reasonable
Who
Many
Assist
I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.
Bill de Blasio
Future
History
Welfare
Ugly
Corporate
City
New
Know
York
New York
My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
Blake Farenthold
People
Immigration
Welfare
Take Advantage
Country
Our
Right Reasons
Those
System
Take
Advantage
Come
Message
Coming
Done
Want
Who
Reasons
Large
Even
Right
The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.
Blase J. Cupich
Education
Health
History
People
Welfare
Church
Long
Society
Embrace
Arc
Catholic
None
Faiths
Providing
Impressive
Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.
Bobby Bones
Good
Food
You
Welfare
Impossible
Living
Good Living
Kid
Having
Food Stamps
Park
Never
Make
Although
Becoming
Leaves
Been
Trailer
Up
Trailer Park
Jaded
Which
Ashamed
Poor
Stamps
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.
Brad Stone
Welfare
Value
Employees
Think
Expense
Achieved
Customer
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