There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

We are staging across -- some outside the state and some inside the state -- a massive response for this storm, and we're going to need it, ... There's going to be a lot of work necessary to make sure that the response is massive and immediate to help people once this storm comes.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life.