Entitlement Quotes - Page 4

• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

  Juan Williams

  Running, Party, Independent

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• When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

  Julia Serano

  Sweet, Rights, Voice

  Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press

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• Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

  Susan RoAne

  Power, Networking, Social Network

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• I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Temptation, Watches, Attention

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• Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

  Natascha McElhone

  Kids, Expectations, Waiting

  "Natascha McElhone: My grief". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.

  Jay Bilas

  Winning, Championship, Investment

  Jay Bilas (2013). “Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court”, p.78, Penguin

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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, Granted

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• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

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• But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Taken, Thinking, Issues

  "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

  Mitt Romney

  Fall, Government, Progress

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• By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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• [The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.

  Michael Steele

  Real, Opportunity, Quality

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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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• I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Arrogance

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• The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement - disability and health care benefits for the huge number of disabled veterans returning from the Iraq war.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Care, Veteran

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Grandparent, Reform, Generations

  "Westboro Baptist Church Leader Talks Supreme Court Ruling; Sen. Durbin, Rep. Hensarling on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2011.

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• While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

  Fred Upton

  Reform, Needs, Obsessed

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• The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

  Anchee Min

  Children, Self, America

  "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.

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• We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Suicide, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Lying, Sacrifice

  "US politics live blog: Chris Christie GOP presidential talk" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2011.

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• It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

  Jon Kyl

  People, Enjoyed

  "Republicans Take Aim at Health Reform Reconciliation Bill". "PBS News Hour", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2010.

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• Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal “Obamacare.” That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's a couple trillion dollars in spending over the next 10 years.

  Rick Santorum

  Couple, Years, Obamacare

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• Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Nuisance, Duty, Feels

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• Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Males, Gamer, Terrified

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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