Ronald Reagan actually said...

"Our goal instead must be to establish a process that allows states and communities to implement their own anti-poverty ideas based on their own unique circumstances."

"We can and must do better."

"I applaud those efforts, and want to begin a process to encourage many more of these state and community-based reform efforts."

"The sad truth is that, despite our best intentions, the welfare system is failing; the system traps people in a cycle of dependency that robs them of dignity."