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

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

- Charles Barkley

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

- Cathy Guisewite

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

- Carol Burnett

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

- Barry Schwartz

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

- Bainbridge Colby

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

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

- Bob McDonnell

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

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

- Blake Farenthold

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

- Albert Camus

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

- Bernie Sanders

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

- Benazir Bhutto

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

- Aga Khan IV

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

- Amartya Sen

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

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

- Al Capp

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

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

- Allen West