Quotes About Entitlement

Recently, another warning was issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in its 2014 annual budget outlook, in which it announced that Social Security (and other entitlement programs) is "unsustainable" and will drive federally held debt to historic levels, thereby threatening the overall economy.24

Among other things, witness the massive welfare and entitlement state, which is concurrently expanding and imploding, and the brazen abandonment of constitutional firewalls and governing limitations. If not appropriately and expeditiously ameliorated, the effects will be dire. And the ruling generation knows it.

As subsequent chapters will demonstrate, the ruling generation's governing policies are already forecast to diminish the quality of life of future generations. Among other things, witness the massive welfare and entitlement state, which is concurrently expanding and imploding, and the brazen abandonment of constitutional firewalls and governing limitations. If not appropriately and expeditiously ameliorated, the effects will be dire. And the ruling generation knows it.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

I don't have sex with everybody I date, intimacy changes everything. When sex is part of the conversation then there is a sense of entitlement for that woman.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

If you're born on third base, you shouldn't think you hit a triple.

Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Thankfulness is difficult to express when one starts with an attitude of entitlement.

Hard-hearted people may be no fun to sit next to at parties, but they are just as entitled to earn a living as the rest of us. Fortunately-for them, at least-the need for insurance adjusters, tax collectors, theater critics, and the like continues to this very day.

I had a nightmare about being Trapped in an elevator with a self-made man-- He was born with a silver bootstrap in his mouth; He pulled himself up by his spoons. But when he lived in the fraternity, Before he could roll his sleeves up and get anything done, He would pack his laundry into boxes And mail it off to his mother and his grandmother-- They would wash and iron his clothes, And then mail them back to him.

I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.