Entitlement Programs Quotes - Page 2

• No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

  James Earl Jones

  Actors, Entitlement

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, People, Political

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• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Competition, Acting

  "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.

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• I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

  Rick Perry

  People, Giving, Reform

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• I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

  Mike Pence

  Wall, Drug, Bills

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

  Randy Hultgren

  Needs, Able, Conservative

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• Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

  Candice Bergen

  Beauty, Giving, Scary

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• I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Character, Expectations

  "'Avengers' Star Tom Hiddleston on His Supervillain Character: 'His Whole Life is a Lie' " by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 03, 2012.

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• Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Sometimes, Entitlement

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• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self Esteem, Risk, Size

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• You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

  Sue Wicks

  Believe, Humble, Player

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• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Different, News, Entitlement

  "The future of newspapers, the end of journalism". Malcolm Turnbull's Speech to the Advanced Centre of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, www.abc.net.au. December 8, 2011.

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• After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

  Van Jones

  Trying, Pushing, Wealth

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  Ben Bernanke

  Defense, Entitlement, Social

  "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

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• To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

  John Stossel

  Government, People, Favors

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• I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

  Van Jones

  Asking, Entitlement, Program

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

  David Brooks

  Block, Cutting, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'

  Orlando Patterson

  Thinking, Class, Long

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• As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

  Charlie Daniels

  Government, Doors, California

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• If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.

  Fred Thompson

  Class, Government, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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