I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
American businesses and consumers deserve a debit card system with competition, transparency, and reasonable fees.
The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.
As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
We were Orthodox Jews, but we really didn't deserve it. I mean, bacon - my father said, 'Don't put bacon in the house,' but we had bacon. We didn't keep kosher. And we observed which today would be Conservative Jews. But in those days, we belonged to an Orthodox temple. So we made out we were Orthodox Jews, but we really weren't.
People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.
The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.
When I'm in the bathtub, I could have my champagne here and my caviar, just to be glamorous enough. I work really hard and I deserve everything.
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.