Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
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.