Eligibility Quotes

• We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

  Roy Barnes

  School, College, Names

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• Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S

  Rosa DeLauro

  Government, Abortion, Low Income

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• Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Needs, Done

  "Melissa Harris-Perry", www.msnbc.com. January 10, 2016.

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• I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

  Paula Poundstone

  Memories, Loss, Thinking

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• All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

  Lou Holtz

  Player, Agents, Damage

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• 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.

  George Will

  War, Men, Age

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

  Kevin Drum

  People, Effort, Benefits

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• That was always a dream of mine to play division one basketball. Not knowing that I wasn't going to get the opportunity because of my past and previous couple of years in college. The opportunity to play with only one year of eligibility was great.

  John Starks

  Basketball, Dream, Couple

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.

  John Starks

  Wise, School, College

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

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• We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

  Mitch McConnell

  America, Entitlement, Demographics

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance premiums for those at risk for losing their coverage.

  Thad Cochran

  Agency, Risk, Pay

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports, Real, Spring

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• I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

  Natalie Coughlin

  College, Years, People

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• I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

  Paula Poundstone

  Memories, Loss, Thinking

  "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In". TV Movie, November 7, 2006.

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• I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility. The Commission's recommendation of a national registry may be the way to go.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Immigration, Reform

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• Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Tea, President

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• One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

  Gail Collins

  People, Age, Sound

  "Fiscal Ecstasy". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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