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

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

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

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

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

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.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

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