Both Marx and Christ AGREE that in this life, a RIGHT action is consideration for the welfare of OTHERS.

My views on EVERYTHING from WELFARE to a balanced BUDGET to affirmative ACTION can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy GROWING up poor but proud in Eufaula.

I cannot POSSIBLY believe that I have it MADE while so many black brothers and SISTERS are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely EXIST on welfare.

The problem of how we FINANCE the welfare state should not obscure a separate ISSUE: if each person thinks he has an inalienable RIGHT to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not EQUITY, it's just creating a society where you can't ask ANYTHING of people.

This desire for equity MUST not LEAD to an excess of WELFARE, where nobody is RESPONSIBLE for ANYTHING.

There are PEOPLE who BELIEVE in expanding the WELFARE STATE across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

The conventional viewpoint SAYS we NEED a jobs PROGRAM and we need to CUT WELFARE. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Jobs for EVERY AMERICAN is doomed to failure because of MODERN automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the DIGNITY and the wherewithal for shelter, BASIC food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

A BILLION dollars every WEEK for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't GET $5 billion for childcare over FIVE years in WELFARE reform.

My parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the STATES, we were on welfare. My mom became a waitress, and my DAD became a DRIVING instructor. That part of the American IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE applies to people of any nationality.

There's a GOOD reason why you've probably never HEARD of President Trump's success in promoting animal welfare - the MEDIA are desperate to MOVE on from any story that humanizes this president.

When you're a Republican Latino, you're TRAVELING uphill on a LONELY road. Still, it's the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I've WORKED on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world's largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me.

Until I was TWO, my MOTHER supplemented her welfare payments by CLEANING HOUSES and waitressing. My father didn't HELP.