We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower…

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.

— Richard N. Haass

If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more…

— Fred Thompson

“We started with entitlement programs that generously met the needs of individuals unable to provide enough for themselves.  This slowly but surely created a…

— G.S. Kyle

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most…

— Thomas Sowell

Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about…

— Orlando Patterson

I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth…

— Allen West

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.…

— Charlie Daniels

To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while…

— John Stossel

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have…

— Eric Cantor

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined…

— Christina Romer

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

— Susan RoAne

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more…

— Van Jones

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

— Van Jones

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social…

— Ben Bernanke

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.

— Jeb Hensarling