For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to measure the success of welfare programs, attributing the words to Ronald Reagan, the former U.S. president and California governor.

And so it was that Ronald Reagan, preparing his run for the presidency during a period when discontent with this stepchild of the welfare state was particularly high, found an issue with broad ...

Ronald Reagan recognized that the expansion of the welfare state was the greatest threat to federalism, and fighting it was a driving force throughout his political career. California in 1971 was ...

The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the ... views on numerous policies. You can quote Roosevelt, as Olsen does, for the proposition that welfare should not become a permanent dole ...

Ronald Reagan gave America so ... (He said it many times, many ways; that exact quote is from his 1988 State of the Union address.) Of course, Reagan was wrong. Poverty declined sharply after ...

There’s a preview of his widely reviled “welfare queen” remarks in an ... Hayward is the Ronald Reagan distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy.

Such is the case with the putative quote from President Ronald Reagan's diaries reproduced ... between me and the total destruction of the welfare state. But, ha: I will destroy him — destroy ...

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of ... After Nixon’s plan was defeated in Congress, Reagan embarked on his own welfare plan in California, as California was confronting a welfare crisis.

What really made Linda a historic figure was Ronald Reagan talking about her. Was he outraged by the stories he read in the Tribune, or did she simply fit his need for an anti-welfare anecdote?