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

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

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.

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

It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.