Entitlement Quotes

• Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

  Alveda King

  Government, Quality, Agendas

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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• Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

  James Stockdale

  Character

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• This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Years, Political

  Speech at Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.weeklystandard.com. September 27, 2011.

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• The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, Self Confidence

  "Interview with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie". Interview with Piers Morgan Tonight, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2011.

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Erosion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Trying, Nigeria Independence

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• One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nice, People, Grace

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• There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Firsts, Mets, Obligation

  "Tories' charity love-in hits new heights" by Alison Benjamin, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Erosion, Guarantees

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• I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

  James Madison

  Government, Liberty, Politics

  "Time Magazine: We Don't Need No Stinking Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

  John Stossel

  Entitled

  "The Entitlement Mess" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2008.

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• You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, Government, Unemployment

  "Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. June 30, 2010.

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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, People, Liberty

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". Interview with Rick Wiles, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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

  James Earl Jones

  Actors, Entitlement Programs

  "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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• The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Rights, Agreement

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

  Jim Ryun

  Finding The One, People, Abuse

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• When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

  Robert Evans

  Attitude, Parenting, Anxiety

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• Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

  Jesse Helms

  Government, Choices, Bigs

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• The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.

  Rory Vaden

  Falling In Love, Attitude, Impact

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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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• Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

  Howard Schultz

  United States, Way, China

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