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There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.

I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.

What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.