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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.

    "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.
  • When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

    Cutting   Saving   Path  
  • I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

  • National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

    David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.104, Random House
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Long   People  
    "Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2010.
  • Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  • 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.

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

    "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.
  • 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.

    Trying   Pushing   Wealth  
    Source: rooseveltinstitute.org
  • 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.

    "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.
  • I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

    Wall   Drug   Bills  
    Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.
  • 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.

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

  • The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  • 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.'

    Thinking   Class   Long  
  • Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction

    Simple   Law   Special  
  • 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?

    "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.
  • When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

    "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.
  • With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

    "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010.
  • 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.

    Children   School   Mean  
    "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.
  • 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.

    Believe   Humble   Player  
  • 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.

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

    "Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. June 30, 2010.
  • The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

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