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Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might. -- Leila Janah
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them. -- Pauline Hanson
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights. -- Glenn Beck
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. -- Thomas Sowell
The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade. -- Michel Martelly
When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need. -- Robert Reich
We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop. -- Bobby Jindal
... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts. -- Ronald Reagan
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments. -- Irwin Redlener
Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward. -- Hugh Jackman
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout -- Dean Alfange
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. -- Richard M. Nixon
Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity. -- Paul LePage
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts. -- Rainn Wilson
Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self. -- Trent Lott
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth. -- Adam McKay
I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me. -- Alonzo Mourning
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures. -- Tammy Bruce
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action and other patronizing measures -- Tammy Bruce
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes. -- Shirley Jackson
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? -- Ronald Reagan
I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute. -- Ishmael Reed
There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you." -- Walter E. Williams
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them. -- Bradley A. Smith
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. -- Ronald Reagan
I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world. -- Jesse Johnson
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. -- Jonathan Haidt
I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it. -- Todd Rokita
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners. -- Jeff Goodell
Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals. -- Leila Janah
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty. -- Melanie McGrath
People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts. -- Ronald Reagan
Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts. -- Robert Reich
The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces. -- Leila Janah
The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes. -- Ted Cruz
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you. -- Lisa Kleypas
When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass. -- Linda Chavez

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