(51 quotes found)
“It's like the best social-service program in the world. It's not costing the taxpayers anything. It's the criminals.”
Jenny Wieland
“Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“That's quite small when compared to the number of people in Arizona on a social service basis. We will take care of these people as long as they need it.”
Jeanine L'Ecuyer
“As a social service agency, I don't see a slackening, ... After 9/11, we cut off solicitation to New York and D.C., but the giving has come back. I don't believe our success or failure will be determined by these natural disasters.”
Robert Sweeney
“The maintenance building serves a need, but not the higher need the social service groups can provide to the people in that neighborhood.”
Doug Kupper
“Research showed not many people connected charitable work with the Catholic Social Service name. (The new name) is going to better reflect what we do.”
Lindsey Hansen
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It's really hard to walk into any social-service agency as an outsider, especially when working with kids.”
Rebecca Jaffe
“When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.”
Christine Todd Whitman
