Because what happens is as the economy suffers tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses where at least your variable costs go down in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance workmen's compensation health care benefits welfare you name it.

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!

The United States are a political state or organized society whose end is government for the security welfare and happiness of all who live under its protection.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man I shall be satisfied.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.