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The Welfare to Work program has worked.


Jane Adams

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DIANE GARNICK The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
NEWT GINGRICH The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite...
JERRY BROWN I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
NORMA MCCORVEY The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment ins...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The council is challenged to work for the welfare of the city as a whole, not for a few individuals ...
COUNCILMAN NORMAN SUGARMAN Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
AL CAPP Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.
JANE EYRE All work and no fore-play makes Jane a dull girl...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Te...
ANGUS KING Its's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way--a sel...
SUZANNE YOUNG I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON Exxon is a good corporate citizen but it does not work for the welfare of the country.
FADEL GHEIT If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness ...
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE Ninety percent of these people come to work, not to commit crimes or be on welfare.
LUIS SANCHEZ Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any...
FOSTER FRIESS 511I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.
J.R. WARD We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an in...
ISAAC HERZOG I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever wo...
EMINEM Success can be measured in terms of smiles and the speed of the initial "mad rush" to be the first i...
THE IMAGINEERS World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now...
JIM TALENT The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now...
JAMES TALENT The report provides overwhelming evidence that the Byrd amendment has turned into a giant corporate ...
STEVE ALEXANDER Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just...
KATHRYN EDIN I think it's motivation to show these younger guys that hard work pays off, to show that what we've ...
ALANDO TUCKER My kids have worked tremendously hard and deserve it. The hard work has paid off. We're beginning to...
MIKE ALBRING Although China has achieved great progress in aerospace development, more hard work is needed to acc...
LUAN ENJIE This senior class has worked hard all along and they've done a lot for this program while they were ...
GREG MAXEY Because I've been allowed to stay long enough, I think that's part of the reason that this has occur...
AL SKINNER I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
GAVIN BRYARS Natalie is a junior that has worked hard and developed in the program for two years. She had a solid...
BETH LAUNIERE What this reinforces is the idea that, when it comes to welfare reform, nothing quite works like wor...
WADE HORN We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
COLIN POWELL A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the comm...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obam...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Boston has different needs than Adams, which has different needs than Andover. All the money gets bl...
BETH BRESNAHAN The problem with Adams,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH [Adams] did like the trip and is interested. He felt the team has a strong commitment to winning, wh...
ANGELO WRIGHT The people in Alabama have been wonderful to Bob, ... They've brought him clothes and Pastor Adams h...
DEBBIE JOHNSON Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
EZRA TAFT BENSON People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative i...
MITT ROMNEY I don't think anyone's out to get more welfare, but people have the right to work for wages with som...
BILL EWING The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.
REV. R. H. BARHAM That has been one of the most significant changes in our work force development program in the last ...
BARRY CICCOCIOPPO Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments...
, THE PROGRAM. 2013 He's worked hard with the total program, and that's what held him up this time.
GENE HEFRON I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by th...
JAMES WYATT The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't Panic
DOUGLAS ADAMS A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an int...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it, it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS [Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 p...
BEN ADAMS I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.
JANET YELLEN The guy turned up two or three months ago, totally out of condition and overweight and he just worke...
EDDIE KOHLHASE I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Aust...
AMY BLOOM People, who rise above their petty individual selfishness and work for the welfare of society are co...
SAM VEDA I think she has tons of potential. Hofstra is a top-notch program. With her work ethic, I think she'...
JAMIE RICHARDSON People gravitate toward things that work, and technical analysis has worked well over the past three...
BILL RHODES Coach Davis assumed one of most difficult challenges any coach can accept -- following a legendary p...
ADAM HERBERT It's a good program. A majority of times, it's worked out wonderfully well for the owner.
CAROL CARTER This kind of preventative maintenance has helped Adams Electric have one of its best years yet for r...
RON PLANK When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT This program is tested and proven to work.
GINA SERVEDIO When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cit...
NANCY LUBLIN So, the owner worked out a program where he is taking access to a developed subdivision and eventual...
DWIGHT KROLL We're not at the penthouse and it's going to take a lot of work to get there, but the elevator is go...
JOE WALKER That's why we set this whole thing up, to get our feeder schools playing volleyball. Any successful ...
BILL LANG You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest w...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a conseq...
WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
DEYTH BANGER Henry Adams and the Making of America,
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Henry Adams and the Making of America
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN I?m glad that my hard work has finally paid off. I worked for four years for this moment.
CAPPIE PONDEXTER [Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for...
BEN ADAMS The peer review program has been a remedial program. A firm looked at your firm and then quietly tol...
LOU GRUMET The program has grown under Student Government progress, ... With transportation on campus, the tran...
STEVE SEXTON That's an ongoing discussion that we're having every day. Everyone has worked together and will cont...
CAROL WOOD The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We will get our people off of welfare and back to work - rebuilding our country with American hands ...
DONALD TRUMP He has been good in the last two games since Danny Adams became ill and it will be great to have him...
PETER JACKSON An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS I look back at James one last time, and he gives me his signature smile, wide and cocky. but it's no...
SUZANNE YOUNG Where the hell's Jane?
NICK FALDO The Other Jane Russell
JANE RUSSELL Our contemporary program has grown so much that it warrants its own show. We get equal recognition f...
CAMPBELL PRYOR The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
HELEN KELLER Certainly, with the Safe and Civil City Program that the city has and the Human Rights Commission, w...
BARBARA MCKINNEY I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON Everybody's got to come to the table to make a program like this work,
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JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.
JANE HADDAM If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JANE FONDA My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal...
JANE AUSTEN