Entitlement Quotes - Page 9

• Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

  David Limbaugh

  Running, Winning, Issues

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• Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

  Pete Edochie

  People, Stupidity, Common

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• Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.

  Perry Noble

  Thankfulness

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• Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Mind, Lists, Appetite

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1982). “Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: Essays”

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• I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

  Curtis Jackson

  Strong, People, Felt

  "No Small Change". Interview With George Wayne, www.vanityfair.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

  George Eliot

  Running, Thinking, Easy

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

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• Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Nice, Player, Wings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, White Man, Personality

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• Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

  Bill Maher

  Afterlife, People, Drug

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

  Rashida Jones

  Technology, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.

  Mark Steyn

  Fall, Two, America

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• There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

  Moby

  Musician, Actors, Saving

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

  Moby

  Careers, People, Musician

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.

  David Brooks

  Cutting, Government, Ideas

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Long, Boards

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

  Joshua Homme

  Hate, Playing Music, Crawling

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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• President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the laws passed by Congress. This undermines the entire constitutional system of government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Law, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Guy, Election

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.

  Judith Butler

  Humanity, World, Matter

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Most people have always done better than their parents, and their parents have done pretty well, and there's always been a sense of expectation or entitlement. It's part of being an American in a sense.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Expectations, People, Parent

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

  Charles Koch

  America, Firsts, Economy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Cutting, Moral

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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