Safety Net Quotes:

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Safety, Want, Safety Net

quote a real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them henry kravis Quotes

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

- Henry Kravis

source: "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Real, Safety, Drive And Success, Safety Net

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

- Mitt Romney

source: "“So Rich, So Poor”: Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 23, 2012.

topic: Safety, Needs, Election, Conservative Values, Safety Net

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

- Paul Ryan

source: "Paul Ryan Wants ‘Welfare Reform Round 2’" by Arthur Delaney, Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

topic: People, Safety, Hammocks, Safety Net

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

- Paul Ryan

topic: Country, Safety, Together, Safety Net

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

- Allen West

topic: Believe, Compassion, Safety, Hammocks, Safety Net

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

- Peter Singer

source: "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

topic: Country, Jobs, Children, Sanitation, Free Education

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

- Kunal Nayyar

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Safety, Risk, Portland, Safety Net

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

- Grace Napolitano

topic: Years, Ideas, People, Safety Net

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Believe, Safety, People, Safety Net

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

- Ari Fleischer

topic: Safety, Income, Levels, Income Redistribution, Safety Net

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

- Susan Rice

topic: Jobs, Past, Opportunity, Safety Net, Trade Agreements

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

- James T. Walsh

topic: New York, Safety, Vulnerable, Poor And Vulnerable, Medicaid

I think that we need to be more aware of how we are all interconnected, and how we actually need to invest in safety nets and in education, and that we need to come to the realization that health care is a human right and try to provide that for people.

- Jesmyn Ward

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Thinking, People, Safety, Safety Net

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

- Rand Paul

topic: Cutting, Safety, Pennies, Safety Net

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Wind, Safety, Scary, Safety Net

What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes the claim that without social provisions, without a welfare state, without a social contract, society can't survive. We need a foundation for people - economically, politically, and socially - where what the Right considers "entitlements" are really rights.

- Henry Giroux

topic: People, Safety, Welfare, Safety Net

State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

- Ian Bremmer

source: "The End of the Free Market: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer". Interview with Scott Horton, harpers.org. May 07, 2010.

topic: Intelligent, Government, Safety, Safety Net

I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.

- Peter Yarrow

topic: Children, Reality, Two, Safety Net

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

- Tim McGraw

topic: Country, Class, Issues, Haves And Have Nots, Safety Net

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

- Rosamund Lupton

source: Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK

topic: Atheist, Children, Taken, Lack Of Faith, Safety Net

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

- David Cobley

topic: Safety, Portraits, Riding, Up And Down, Dangerous Things

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

- Peter Wolf

topic: Health, Thinking, Doctors, Being Mad, Safety Net

I know that when I look at today's Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can't coexist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it's an agonizing issue.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Strong, America, Issues, Mixed Feelings, Safety Net

Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

- Richard Attias

source: "A Focus on Africa’s Informal Economy" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

topic: Safety, World, Littles, Safety Net

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

- Shirley Bassey

source: "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

topic: Kids, Feet, Safety, Safety Net

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

- Andrew Weil

source: "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

topic: Hurt, Real, Technology, Lifestyle Choices, Safety Net

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

- Gwen Moore

source: "State Waivers for TANF Can Provide True Pathway Out of Poverty" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Government, Welfare Recipients, Safety Net

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

- James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

topic: People, Safety, Tough Times, Economic Recession, Medicaid

There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll always find a church and a community. When you let go of church, you don't have that comfort, you don't have that safety net anymore.

- Michaela Coel

topic: Letting Go, Real, Moving, Safety Net

In stand up every joke is thought about so meticulously, and one word can completely change how the audience responds. You're up there with no safety net; you can't shirk responsibility. It's your thoughts; it's your voice. You can't blame it on the writing, you can't blame it on the editor. You are just up there completely naked.

- Ari Graynor

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Safety Net

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

- Naomie Harris

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Safety, Acting, Stability, Safety Net

In 1978, '79, if you were unemployed, you didn't have an phone, you didn't have a big-screen TV, you didn't have air-conditioned house, and you weren't guaranteed to be eating three meals a day. You had welfare, you had unemployment, but you didn't have the kind of government support system/safety nets that exist today. So that's a difference. But today the economic circumstances really no different.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Safety, House, Support, Safety Net

I look back at the Clinton administration as eight years of a fundamental transformation in the direction of the country - toward favoring big business, and toward almost frontal assaults on the most underprivileged members of the society. It was much more than cutting the social safety net. Clinton followed that by the abuse of those at the lowest rungs of our society - in ways that I don't think Bush, for all of his manifest faults, has done to the same degree.

- Jeffrey St. Clair

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Country, Cutting, Thinking, Safety Net

There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.

- William H. Macy

source: Source: abilitymagazine.com

topic: People, Safety, Way, Estimation, People With Disabilities

It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

- William H. Macy

source: Source: abilitymagazine.com

topic: People, Safety, Care, Safety Net

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

- Alexander Skarsgard

topic: Class, People, Safety, Free Education, Perfect Society

I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.

- Ashley Greene

source: Source: my.xfinity.com

topic: Twilight, Character, Thinking, Safety Net

Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don't have a country.

- Donald Trump

source: "Donald Trump promises 'no amnesty' in aggressive immigration speech - as it happened" by Trump vows to deport millions: 'There will be no amnesty' Scott Bixby, Tom McCarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2016.

topic: Country, Mean, Law, Deportation, Safety Net

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

- Manmohan Singh

source: "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

topic: Safety, Poor, Social, Safety Net

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

- Ai-jen Poo

topic: Believe, Thinking, Safety, Safety Net

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

- Michael Skolnik

topic: Growing Up, People, Safety, Safety Net

Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges. That is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who've come here under this current corrupt administration.