Entitlement Quote by Jim Ryun

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because…

— Anthony Weiner

Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink,…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

— Sam Graves

The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

— Adam Cohen

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget,…

— Paul Gillmor

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years…

— Alan Greenspan

Obamacare has driven entitlement spending up much faster than expected.

— Stephen Moore

“The government used to be able to coordinate complex solutions to problems like atomic weaponry and lunar exploration. But today, after 40 years of…

— Peter Thiel

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's…

— Joe Klein

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending…

— Anonymous

Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement spending as…

— Jacob Weisberg

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to…

— Austan Goolsbee