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We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. -- Paul Ryan
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. -- Billy Joel
If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive. -- Susan Rice
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water. -- Peter Singer
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. -- Henry Kravis
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution. -- Ari Fleischer
Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike. -- James T. Walsh
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. -- Gerry Cooney
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare. -- Rand Paul
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin... -- Salman Rushdie
I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it. -- Mitt Romney
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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net. -- Howard Schultz
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. -- Paul Ryan
Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative. -- Daniel Handler
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers... -- Mark Twight
America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives. -- Gary Bauer
Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all? -- Arianna Huffington
Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards. -- Donald Trump
I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country. -- Mitt Romney
Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing. -- Tatiana Maslany
Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life. -- Marco Rubio
Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock. -- Allen West
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks. -- Kunal Nayyar
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church. -- James E. Faust
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net. -- Noah Feldman
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America. -- Tom Vilsack
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net. -- Richard Attias
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy. -- Shirley Bassey
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. -- Richard Neal
Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. -- Josette Sheeran
If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. -- Steve Wynn
I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type. -- Kajol
Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs. -- John Yarmuth
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on. -- Gerry Cooney
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect. -- Alexander Skarsgard
The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this. -- Paul Ryan
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. -- Andrew Weil
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall. -- Jack Kemp
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether. -- Abraham Verghese
There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life. -- Christopher Egan
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path. -- John Burdett
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net. -- Erica Bauermeister
We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net. -- Steve King
Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children. -- Irwin Redlener
Safety first when taking selfie's. Don't put yourself in harms way for a shot. Photoshop it. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency. -- Benjamin Carson
My hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed. -- Blake Lively
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives. -- Rosamund Lupton
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles. -- Barbara Johnson
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents. -- Douglas Coupland
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce. -- Todd Young
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net. -- Ron Fournier
I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration. -- Petra Remes
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction. -- Steve Jurvetson
I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in. -- G-Eazy
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation. -- Anna Quindlen
In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States. -- Ben Shapiro
I didn't have the safety net that a lot of young actresses have. A lot of young girls have their families around to support them and help choose wisely. -- Nikki Reed
State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain. -- Ian Bremmer
I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct. -- Jim Parsons
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves -- Barbara Mikulski
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves. -- Barbara Mikulski
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good. -- Samantha Shannon
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take. -- Grace Napolitano
There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze. -- Tina Fey

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