Privilege Quotes

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.