The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.