In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.

I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.