Quotes About Eligibility

#1. I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

Natalie Coughlin

#2. We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

Mitch McConnell

#3. This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance premiums for those at risk for losing their coverage.

Thad Cochran

#4. One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

Gail Collins

#5. Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

Ron Fournier

#6. Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

Jeb Bush

#7. I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

Paula Poundstone

#8. All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Lou Holtz

#9. If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.

Joe Klein

#10. We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Roy Barnes

#11. I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

Paula Poundstone

#12. My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.

Dominique Moceanu

#13. Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.

Tom Price

#14. I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility. The Commission's recommendation of a national registry may be the way to go.

William J. Clinton

#15. For me, the essence of being a professional soldier was in being operational. It was the core of a soldier's identity and eligibility.

Thomas Rathsack

#16. We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

Kevin Drum

#17. The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.

Lawrence Kudlow

#18. The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

George Will

#19. Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

George Will

#20. Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life - that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it - is proper and common to all.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. Social Security Disability Plans: This segment of Social Security is different from the more common retirement benefit payout. Two programs are available: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Both programs have stringent eligibility requirements.

Michele Tagliati

#22. Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

Rosa DeLauro

#23. Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#24. Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

Jan Egeland

#25. To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

Harry S. Truman

#26. There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

Bryant McGill

#27. To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Christian Louboutin

#28. Family. Friendship. Loyalty. These things have been my guiding stars, my light in these dark times.

John Gwynne

#29. We won't always have the strongest military.

Howard Dean

#30. I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Kathy Griffin

#31. It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.

Vincenzo Galilei

#32. Casey was the better team and the better team won.

Bill Evans

#33. Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

Bradley Chicho

#34. Staggered. "Curse them!" Lycaon yelled. He growled at his pack, and the wolves turned and ran.

Rick Riordan

#35. Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Richard Mitchell

#36. The forces that govern our experience, electromagnetism and gravity, are blind to the distinction between left and right. No process moderated by either force can turn something such as your right hand into its mirror image. I cannot

Lawrence M. Krauss

#37. I don't call myself a writer.

Bruce Boxleitner