Government Assistance Quotes:

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

- Taylor Caldwell

topic: Freedom, Work, Rome, Subsistence, National Debt

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

- Norm Dicks

topic: Government, Cost, Debt, Injection, Assistance

If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. Of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. We will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. But the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Thinking, Government, Wages, Government Assistance

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

- Anna Holmes

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Mom, Jobs, Children, Government Assistance

Illegal immigrants are people that have very little education. They are mostly people who are very poor. They arrive needing government assistance from the get-go, and the Democrat Party is right there to provide it, while telling them that the Republican Party wants to kick 'em out.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Party, Government, People, Government Assistance

This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens.

- Milward L. Simpson

topic: Government, Effort, Medical Insurance, Medicare, Government Assistance

I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people get enough money to live, or you're always going to have people needing government assistance. You can't have it both ways.

- Bill Maher

topic: Thinking, Government, People, Government Assistance

...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?

- Ed Koch

source: Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

topic: Country, Government, Immigration, Government Assistance

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

- Lindsey Graham

source: Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

topic: Government, Class, Long, Government Assistance