“Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.” ThinkingYearsRealStatesSecurityMilitaryBenefitsDecidedClintonHearingDefenseCampaignsReputationPresidentialExpertsSenateTransformedQuestioningSecretaryCommitteesNational SecuritySelectiveHawksPentagonColonelsPresidential CampaignLieutenantsProcurementArmed Services Author:Michael Tomasky
“The good thing about the European Union is that the joint project ultimately benefits all Member States and not just a few.” StatesMembersBenefitsProjectsGood ThingsUnionsJointsEuropean Union Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.” StatesRightsCitizensBenefitsEuropeReceiving Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost. No, we will not do it at any cost. We will do it in a way that ensures maximum benefit for the Russian state and the Russian economy.” WayStatesEconomyCostBenefitsObsessedMaximumRussian Economy Author:Vladimir Putin
“So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding Planned Parenthood, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country.” KindCountryStatesChoicesCoursesExerciseBenefitsCancerBlockAll KindsOur CountryParenthoodRegulationScreeningPlanned Parenthood Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Pleiadians are very much part of our evolution right now, and I think one of the most common questions people ask, "What is in it for the Pleiadians? Why are they supporting us in this way?" The best answer is that they will benefit from our evolution, just as the whole universe will. As we evolve and come into a deeper understanding of our grandness, our sacred nature, then we become more connected into the universal community as a group, and we need to return to that whole God Consciousness state.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesWholeUniverseAsksUnderstandingCommunityAnswersCommonConsciousnessGroupsReturnEvolutionRight NowBenefitsUniversalSacredDeeperConnectedEvolveDeeper Understanding Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees. The only thing that I've asked for is to do away with automatic benefits granted to someone, basically, Cubans who come from Cuba, if it cannot be verified that they are refugees fleeing political persecution, so they will be treated the same way as any other immigrant who arrives in the United States, which is that legal immigrants in the United States don't have the right to any federal benefits for five years.” IfsWayYearsStatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesFiveProveBenefitsTreatedGrantedFive YearsImmigrantsPersecutionRefugeeCubaCubanFleeing Author:Marco Rubio
“First, undoubtedly, there are some people who are coming from Cuba who immediately, or from any other country, benefit. But, what is the difference between that and someone who is coming from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, etc.? That is, we are simply going to say that someone who comes from another country to the United States - the first five years they're here - they don't qualify for federal benefits. They may benefit from local benefits, state benefits. Those decisions belong to other jurisdictions.” PeopleYearsFirstsMayCountryStatesDifferencesDecisionUnitedUnited StatesFiveBenefitsLocalsFive YearsEtcMexicoOther CountriesCubaJurisdictionNicaraguaGuatemala Author:Marco Rubio
“When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn't make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.” PeopleThinkingMadeStatesWhiteClassPrinciplesRichRightsExampleBenefitsBasesSlaveryObviousRationalOverwhelmingRulingAbolitionPlantationsAbolition Of Slavery Author:Edward Snowden
“The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.” PeopleKnowsRealCountryStatesFactsGovernmentSocialSixBenefitsPicksBillionsFormerFranceWelfareGermanyOther CountriesTraveledRefugeeDutchEuroWelfare StateSwitzerlandHollandAustriaHungaryYugoslaviaEstoniaMacedonia Author:Geert Wilders
“You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.” PeopleWantYearsWellsMayHas BeensCountryStatesWholeGovernmentWould BeAmericaExampleParticularTypeTaxesWasteBenefitsResourcesPaidSpendingSenatorsLocationConstructsGrossHighwaysPortCoalitionsDams Author:James M. Buchanan
“Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.” PeopleLooksChildrenLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesHelpingProblemPastEnergyUnitedCasesUnited StatesBenefitsEuropeHopefullyStableRefugeeControversyVaccines Author:Bill Gates
“The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.” WorldFirstsWarEndsCountryStatesAmericaFallGrowsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEnvironmentCryPolicyPeriodsBenefitsFirst TimeUnionsPeacefulWar Of The WorldsSovietSoleDominantSoviet UnionSuperpowerSecond World WarComing To An End Author:Alan Bersin
“I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.” ThinkingKnowsShouldHumansPersonsRealStatesGivenUnitedClassUnited StatesDoubtBenefitsFaultsCaughtArguingDebateGenuineImmigrationDesperateCaught UpRefugeeHuman TraffickingTraffickingBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Preston Manning
“Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.” StatesHumanityViolenceTroubleBenefits Author:Dalai Lama
“[Dan fried] is the department`s foremost Russia expert and he, too, is now leaving at a time when arguably the State Department needs it most, the State Department will not have the benefit of his insight going forward.” NeedsStatesBenefitsLeavingInsightRussiaExpertsDepartment Author:Rachel Maddow
“Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.” CountryStatesLawInterestLevelsBenefitsResourcesWestInvestmentSouthInternationalTerritoryProtectedSovereignParticipationDeprivedInternational LawLegality Author:Richard A. Falk
“All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.” IfsStatesIndividualForceRightsGroupsBenefitsLibertarianSupposed To BeViolationIndividual LibertyInitiation Book:Freedom Under Siege Source: Freedom Under Siege
“I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.” PeopleShouldBelieveStatesAmericaSocialCuttingSecurityTaxesBenefitsRedDon't BelieveCorporateVeteranSocial SecurityMedicareLoopholes Author:Bernie Sanders
“The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.” IfsStatesLossPoorTaxesBenefitsRateVariousIncomeWelfareStampsHousingWelfare StateSubsidiesFood Stamps Author:Thomas Sowell
“The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.” MenWarStatesAgeSocialSecurityBenefitsCongressWelfareEntitledSocial SecurityEntitlementExtendingWelfare StateMenusEnrichingBiddingEligibility Author:George Will
“Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.” IfsKnowsGivingStatesEnoughTreeFeetBenefitsCreatorSpreadIgnorantThanksHeightBranchesOwners Book:The Confessions Source: The Confessions
“Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the council exists. We band together because there's strength in numbers. Because in its unperverted state, the council ensures representative government and a pooling of resources and ideas that benefits everyone." "Yes, but the operative word there is unperverted, and right now, you guys are operating under the thumb of the biggest power-pervert ever to swish his tail in the U.S. He's like Hitler with fur.” IfsIdeasStatesReasonGovernmentTogetherGuyNumbersInfluenceWillingPrideRight NowBandBenefitsResourcesCollectivesRemoveRepresentativesTailsCouncilThumbsFurRepresentative GovernmentStrength In Numbers Book:Alpha Source: Alpha
“The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.” MayStatesRememberNextLibertyRightsBenefitsUnionsDearBurden Author:John C. Calhoun
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.” PeopleChildrenLongStatesGovernmentPoliticsLibertyBenefitsEndureTreasureDeprivationPrecious Children Author:Adolf Hitler
“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.” PeopleStatesRunningUsedPoliticsCompanyBenefitsNerdRevenueCuban Author:Fidel Castro
“The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV".” PeopleIfsGivingWellsCountryStatesReasonFormOrderJusticePerfectUnitedCommonUnited StatesFrontsTvsBenefitsSittingConstitutionUnionsWelfareGuaranteesDefenceTranquillityGeneral WelfarePreamble Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.” NeedsGivingFirstsStatesJobsLawFourPolicyBenefitsAreasThirdsCriminalsImmigrationAliensWelfareBordersImmigrantsIllegalFourthWorkplaceAssistancePublic ServiceStrengtheningIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal AliensImmigration PolicyAmerican JobsBorder Control Author:William J. Clinton
“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” CountryStatesUseMightJobsNumbersRecordsCitizensBenefitsMovedBurdenCriminalsImmigrationOur CountrySecureAliensAdministrationWelfareBordersImmigrantsIllegalAffectedEnteringTaxpayersDisturbedPublic ServiceHiringLarge NumbersIllegal Aliens Author:William J. Clinton