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

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

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

If women have young children they are one man away from welfare.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector Democrats will lose black votes.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.