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For the longest time, the state discourse in Singapore has eschewed any reference to welfare. Similarly, the state has tended to place meritocracy on a pedestal. Political leadership has tended to frame both issues in the extreme, with welfare representing the bad, and meritocracy representing the good.
Pritam Singh /
Discourse
Pedestal
Representing
Singapore
Welfare
Frame
Longest
Longest Time
Reference
Similarly
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This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I mean getting involved in your neighborhood, your community. This is no time to say, "I'm not into politics." This is a time to go headlong into the welfare of this nation.
Keith Ellison / U.s. Representative
Community
Mean
Welfare
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Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments.
Jacob Weisberg / Journalist
Religion
Government
Christianity
Conservatism
Draws
Evangelical
Individual
Individual Freedom
Mixing
Populist
Southern
Welfare
Welfare State
Accepts
Dislikes
Embraces
Hates
Moderate
Plays
Racial
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Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the welfare state established at the same time as our legal aid system - being diagnosed with a major illness and needing the NHS, or losing a job and needing the support of social security.
Sadiq Khan / British Politician
Legal
Branches
Illness
Nhs
Social Security
Welfare
Welfare State
Aid
Established
Diagnosed
Inconceivable
Needing
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No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.
Loretta Lynch / Attorney
Concern
Welfare
Element
Measure
Promising
Safeguard
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Those who wish to promote the welfare of the people should advance in solidarity with them and select the path most suitable for them. Since the history of our people is different from that of the people of the West, the steps that the two peoples choose to take in order to advance must also be different.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Select
Solidarity
Steps
Suitable
Welfare
Advance
Be Different
Our People
Promote
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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 / U.s. Representative
Government
Another Way
Believe
Benefits
Critical
Lazy
Receiving
Safety
Safety Net
Sitting
Thinking
Welfare
Net
Successes
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The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.
Todd Rokita / United States Representative
Bigger
Checks
Mess
Unemployment
Vote
Welfare
Government Believe People
Dig
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We've overmedicated kids. Quite frankly, some of the overmedication of kids are because welfare moms want to get additional benefits, and if they can put them on SSI through maintenance drugs, they can also put them on Social Security disability and get a separate check. That is wrong on every single level.
James Lankford / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Disability
Maintenance
Social Security
Welfare
Additional
Check
Frankly
Moms
Quite Frankly
Separate
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America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the schools and neighborhoods; it has given blacks welfare and affirmative action; it has even apologized through Bill Clinton. There is simply nothing else that America can or should do.
Jesse Lee Peterson /
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Black Family
Granted
Integrated
Welfare
Apologized
Bill Clinton
Black Americans
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I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.
Richard Schiff / Actor
America
General Welfare
Hate
Nations
Paragraph
People
Preamble
Resources
Welfare
Prospers
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Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?
Jeff Sessions / United States Senator
Dependent
Federal Government
United States Of America
Welfare
How Many People
Stamp
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My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.
Chesley Sullenberger / Aviator
Aspect
Navy
Obligation
Welfare
Responsibility Me People
Harbor
Officer
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Volunteered
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I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
Betty White / Actress
Zoos
Health
Animal
Animal Rights
Cat
Dog
Foundation
Fund
Length
Morris
Organization
Rights
Welfare
Wildlife
Since
Cats
Been
Same
Campaign
Dogs
Studies
Worked
Zoo
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
J. D. Vance /
Consciousness
Historical
Urban
Welfare
African
African Americans
Associate
Blacks
Queen
Outnumbered
Uniquely
Whites
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Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.
Arthur Laffer / Economist
Balance
Benefits
Employment
Expenditures
Higher
Output
Social Welfare
Tax Cuts
Unemployment
Unemployment Benefits
Welfare
Tax
Budget
Cuts
Incentive
Programs
Lower
Production
Reduced
Resulting
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
Geoff Mulgan / Writer
Claims
Consistent
Cosmos
Justice
People
Welfare
Years
Deliver
Drawn
Duties
Originally
Promised
Surprisingly
Threats
Truths
Uphold
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We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a year and a half. But I remember my mom never complained, and we never wanted for anything. She always made ends meet and she's been the rock for the family. She instilled in me work ethic and toughness.
Tony Gonzalez / American Football Player
Brother
Toughness
Welfare
Work Ethic
Family Work Mom
About A Year
Ethic
Instilled
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Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.
Pratibha Patil / Former President Of India
Agency
Delivery
Disease
Duty
Hunger
Illiteracy
Involved
Malnutrition
Poverty
Programmes
Removal
Should
Should Have
Social
Social Welfare
Strong
Transparent
Welfare
Accountable
Agencies
Efficiently
Foremost
Must
Implemented
Priority
Sense
Services
Strong Sense
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In the longer term, immigrants contribute more to the government's coffers than they receive in social spending. Moreover, these programs are not just welfare or a handout, but also an investment, helping ensure that families are healthy, educated, and able to work and support themselves over the course of generations.
Annie Lowrey /
Generations
Immigrants
Welfare
Contribute
Handout
Programs
Moreover
Receive
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The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
God
Allegiance
Charity
Higher
Higher Power
Irrelevant
Welfare
Welfare State
Above
Actual
Greatest
Name
Collective
State
Greatest Obstacle
Makes
Obstacle
Private
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If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?
Stephen Moore /
Girl
Benefits
Conservative
Food Stamps
Left
Stamps
Structure
Teenage
Wedlock
Welfare
Advance
Family Work Food
Babies
Cultural
Disparage
Family Structure
Reforms
Oppose
Pays
Preserve
Proposals
Require
System
Teenage Girls
Wants
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Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
Jill Lepore / Professor
Bridges
Common
Defense
Doctors
Environment
General Welfare
Medicine
Nursing
Pay
Tranquility
Welfare
Teachers
General
Possible
Domestic
Homes
Insure
Laid
Promote
Provide
Roads
Schools
Spent
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When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
William J. Clinton / 42Nd U.s. President
Administration
Credible
Employment
Governors
Increase
New Ways
People
President
President Obama
Reform
Trying
Welfare
Work People New
Claim
Obama Administration
Requirement
Weakened
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How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.
Gloria Reuben / Singer
Care
Children
Disaster
Effects
Human Beings
Teach
Welfare
Years
Beings
Beyond
Contains
Damaging
Experiencing
William
Lesson
Planet
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The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.
Nicholas A. Christakis / Physician
Behavior
Challenges
Deeper
Equal
Individual
Intellectual
Natural
Our Lives
Promise
Social
Today
Understanding
Welfare
Through
Collective
Human
Greatly
Improved
Institutional
Match
Natural Sciences
Offer
Realize
Sciences
Social Sciences
Structures
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When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
Courage
Late
Poverty
Status Quo
Welfare
Welfare Reform
Criticisms
Question
Quo
Status
Succeeded
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Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has been erected a mish-mash of means-tested, behaviour-tested social assistance, with a growing tendency to force young unemployed into workfare schemes, which are helping to depress real wages.
Guy Standing /
Assistance
Schemes
Unemployed
Wages
Welfare
Welfare State
Depress
Tendency
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
Kelly Price / Singer-Songwriter
New York
Divorced
Homeless
Needed
New York City
Parent
Projects
Raised
Single
Single Parent
Tools
Welfare
York
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Abuse
Celebrate
Concern
Criticize
Embarrassment
Endure
Humiliation
Welfare
Fighters
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Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
Bill Drayton / Social Entrepreneur
Advancement
Execution
Welfare
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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 /
Access
Difficulty
Grants
Grows
Higher
Higher Education
Low Income
Program
Right Thing
Successful
Welfare
Education Good Opportunity
Attempt
Student
Do The Right Thing
Good Thing
Pell
The Right Thing
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The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.
Mark Skousen / Economist
Charitable
Charitable Work
Important
Organization
Social Security
Take Care
Welfare
Assist
Basis
Forms
Churches
Equally
Flaw
Fundamental
Individuals
Principle
Violate
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The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of federalism with the states. Clearly, President Bush has had a different vision, and that vision has resulted in education and welfare policies that have increased the size and scope of government.
Mike Pence / Governor Of Indiana
Committed
Devices
Federalism
Limited Government
President Bush
Restoring
Scope
Size
Welfare
Balances
Increased
Limited
Policies
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I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
James Rollins / Veterinarian
Animal
Book
Causes
My Time
Return
Strange
Veterinarian
Volunteer
Welfare
Writing
Be Happy
Doctor
Published
Secretly
Sold
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
Jerry Brown / Governor Of California
Jobs
Failure
Medical
Automation
Dignity
Doomed
Medical Care
Ought
Shelter
Warfare
Welfare
Basic
Every American
Production
Recognize
Wherewithal
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I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a solution somewhere above the positions of each party. So from the Left, take the idea that we need day care and food supplements for people on welfare. From the Right, take the idea that they have to work for a living and that there are time limits.
Dick Morris / Author
Supplements
Welfare
Best Work Time
Positions
Solution
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I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
Capitalism
Corporate
Economics
Entrepreneurial
Helping
Successful
Welfare
Businesses
Call
Take
Washington
Losers
Favored
Small
Spend
Individuals
Picking
Pro-Growth
Small Businesses
Where
Winners
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I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.
Michael Eric Dyson / Author
Jobs
Average
Average Person
College
Degrees
Father
Son
Topics
Welfare
Life View People
Discuss
Frames
Relates
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Zero
Advantage
Ambition
Arriving
Burden
Danger
Liberty
Private Life
Recompense
Remains
Return
Tranquillity
Welfare
Accept
Life Done Believe
Calculate
Hour
Private
Provided
Shall
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When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.
James E. Faust / Lawyer
Buried
Died
Dread
Eternal
Mourning
Remains
Replaced
Sin
Welfare
Wilderness
Loved
Frontier
However
Physical
Spiritually
Survivors
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When you're a Republican Latino, you're traveling uphill on a lonely road. Still, it's the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I've worked on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world's largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me.
Lionel Sosa /
Corporations
Doors
Lonely
Presidential
Welfare
Largest
Led
Races
The Doors
Uphill
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.
Ed Crane / Political Activist
Government
Constitution
Welfare
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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 /
People
Safety
Welfare
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Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever, therefore, money has been raised by the general authority, and is to be applied to a particular measure, a question arises whether the particular measure be within the enumerated authorities vested in Congress. If it be, the money requisite for it may be applied to it; if it be not, no such application can be made.
James Madison / 4Th U.s. President
Authority
May
Welfare
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Individuals understood in relational terms cannot be conceived as fully separate from their communities. Others in one's community may already be a part of the self. This conception of the person as overlapping in identity with others has normative implications for what constitutes the good of the individual and how that good relates to the good of others. One's relationship with others can form a part of one's good as an individual, such that one can have a compelling interest in the welfare of these others and in one's relationship with them.
David Wong / Writer
Community
Identity
Welfare
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