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My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
Carol Burnett
Welfare
Parents
Unloved
Abandoned
Never
Knew
Nobody
Felt
Were
Childhood
Loved
Mean
Poor
Rough
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
Charles Barkley
People
Welfare
Black
Television
See
Only
Story
Show
While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
Charles Boustany
Work
People
Welfare
Long
Programs
Our
Obama
Promote
Economic
Economic Policies
Failed
Policies
Spur
Mobility
Move
Upward
Upward Mobility
While
Growth
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Charles Erwin Wilson
Good
Welfare
Thought
Country
Big
Vice Versa
Too
Our
General
General Motors
Versa
Years
Exist
Motors
Did
Goes
Difference
Vice
Company
I don't believe in welfare.
Charles Evers
Welfare
Believe
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
Charles Kennedy
Welfare
States
Systems
Support
Countries
Maintenance
Most
Comfortable
Robust
Common
Them
Taxation
European
European Countries
Consent
You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.
Charles M. Schwab
You
Welfare
Believe
Unless
Tell
He
Sincere
Like
Make
Him
Knows
His
Whether
Interested
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
Christine Pelosi
Food
Culture
Welfare
Free
Big
Presidential
Defined
Promising
Would
Folks
Food Stamps
Free Stuff
He
Stuff
Nomination
Executives
Shelters
Mitt
Mitt Romney
End
Won
Big Oil
Dependency
Oil
Tax
So-Called
Tax Breaks
Romney
Breaks
Republicans
Poor
Stamps
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
Christopher Hitchens
Queen
Welfare
Thought
Additionally
Immediate
Say
States
Toronto
More
Somewhat
Ontario
Polite
Version
North
North America
America
Currency
Regime
Etiquette
Reassuring
United
United States
Street
Elizabeth
Associations
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Myself
Age
Welfare
Young
Meet
Way
Married
Daughters
Had
Divorced
Support
Make
Became
Go
Young Age
Ends
Two
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
Daisaku Ikeda
Dignity
Welfare
Opportunity
Problems
Our
Ensure
Individual
Rethink
Personal
Order
Personal Lives
Social
Aging
Each
Each Individual
Lives
Present
The welfare system in the United States is vile.
Daniel Keys Moran
Vile
Welfare
States
System
United
United States
Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.
David Autor
Welfare
Settings
Markets
Both
Terms
Sellers
Efficient
Maximizing
Many
Buyers
But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.
David Cameron
Work
You
People
Welfare
Will
Long
Country
Too
Else
Say
Claiming
Able
Something
Something Else
Like
Go
Cannot
Far
Choose
Who
Now
I am a very instinctive Conservative. I have created a welfare system where it pays to work. I have created independent schools within the state sector bringing excellence to children wherever they are.
David Cameron
Work
Conservative
Welfare
State
Sector
System
Independent
Excellence
Instinctive
Schools
Within
Am
Very
Where
Children
Wherever
Created
Pays
Bringing
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
David Miliband
Work
Education
Welfare
Young
System
Over
Housing
Unemployed
Transport
Prescribed
Britain
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Dayananda Saraswati
Welfare
Practice
Virtue
Adds
Evils
General
Civilization
General Welfare
Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
DeRay Mckesson
Justice
Welfare
Community
Equity
Social
Rooted
Social Welfare
My lawyer is telling me I have to take some responsibility about the welfare of the children. Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don't want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them.
Debbie Rowe
Good
Me
Woman
Welfare
Responsibility
Lawyer
Hell
Gave
Kids
Telling
Some
About
Absolutely
Take
Like
Look
Does
Just
Forgot
Children
Want
Them
Ask
Who
Away
Her
I care a lot about animal welfare and children. Although I don't have children myself.
Deborah Meaden
Myself
Animal
Welfare
Care
About
Although
Lot
Children
Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people's everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace.
Deeyah Khan
People
Welfare
Political
Insecurity
Increasing
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Security
Economic
Access
Inevitably
Lack
Workplace
Lives
PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine.
Denise Dresser
Welfare
Machine
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.
Dennis Prager
Welfare
Men
Parents
Young
Live
Increasingly
State
Various
Shame
Countries
Longer
Welfare State
Doing
Common
Young Men
European
European Countries
Even
Why
Why Not
So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.
Denny Rehberg
You
Welfare
College
Pell
Out
Telling
Because
Go
Maybe
Anybody
Century
Turning
Should
Grants
The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.
Denny Rehberg
Education
Good
Do The Right Thing
Welfare
Opportunity
Higher Education
Difficulty
Right Thing
Pell
Those
Give
Higher
Good Thing
Student
Attempt
Most
Access
Times
Often
The Right Thing
Low-Income
Successful
Grants
Help
Grows
Right
Thing
Need
Program
I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.
Deval Patrick
Time
Welfare
Mother
Three
Sister
Live
Side
Slept
Those
Various
Had
Shared
Most
Bedrooms
Beds
Cousins
South
Chicago
Up
South Side
Bunk
Grew
Us
Grandparents
Used
Set
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