It is in our national interest to create a class of people permanently dependent on the government? No, it is not.

Our budget follows the tradition of this success.

I think part of this, too, I think we need to look at the issue of poverty in context.

You have to have an honest accounting of how much money is going out the door.

This spending never goes down, okay?

You have not been in Washington very long if you think that is what is going to happen, okay?

We simply have to do something about our deficit. Our children and grandchildren are paying a price, and it is going to involve some changes in low income programs for sure.

We need to, when we are having these discussions, not talk about 'those people' or 'welfare people.'

I want to make people prosperous and self-sufficient. He said he wanted to turn the poor from being tax-eaters into taxpayers.

One in six people are in poverty today. Our rates are the highest they have been in a generation.

I think the key in food stamps is to turn it into a work activation grant, not a block grant...