Entitlement Quotes - Page 2

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

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

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

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

I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

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

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

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

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.