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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.
Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.
All those articles that scold Millennials for their supposed entitlement? Forget them. Millennials are great employees.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.
Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
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.
Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.
I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.
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.
The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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.
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 need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.
I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
I just have this sense of entitlement that I should be able to feel comfortable at all times, like I could go to bed at any moment in what I'm wearing.
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.
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
Every team can have a shot at the title, and we're seeing all of them as a potential threat. There's absolutely no feeling of entitlement to be at the front.
Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim their rights and entitlements.
People will always have awful things to say because there's a sense of entitlement and safety behind the screen, but trust me, you don't need to be that angry.
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.
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.
Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.
I believe there are several conservative democrats who are prepared to join Republicans in opposition to measures that propose new entitlements and reparations.
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.
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.
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.
Such is the sense of entitlement of Boris Johnson and his establishment class - they believe they can break the law without the consequences meeting ordinary people.
GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements.
What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.
I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.
Actors devote a lot of our time and energy to the work that we do, but there shouldn't come a sense of entitlement from fans that we owe them every second of our lives.
I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.
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.