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There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Through, Try, Stop

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Great, Trying, Whole

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
James Broughton

Someone, Hard, Try

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
George Mason

Good, Government, Society

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
Gary Bauer

Love, Time, Power

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
Howard Dean

Trust, Money, Balance

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion

Courage, Fear, Knowledge

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
Merle Haggard

Time, Everybody, Nobody

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
John Ashcroft

Able, Agent, Sites

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
John Woolman

Society, Heart, Feeling

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Howard Stern

Choice, Times, Sure

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.
Eric Cantor

Government, Hurt, Help

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
Robert Reich

Crisis, Job, Public

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy Bentham

Religion, Power, Government

We ought to be bragging about Florida!
Rick Scott

Bragging, Florida

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

History, War, Everybody

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
Ellen Page

Movies, Try, Hollywood

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
John Engler

Parents, Public, Choices

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
Michael W. Smith

Worship, Leading, Terms

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
Joshua Lederberg

Yourself, Far, Takes

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'
Julian Fellowes

Funny, Wife, Him

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Away, Mistake, Party

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.
John Stossel

Person, Free, Dying

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
John Stossel

Private, Businesses

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
Eric Cantor

Money, Government, Mean

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
Leland Stanford

Equality, Sex, Political

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
William Safire

Mind, Become, Able

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
Brit Hume

Hope, Sense, Wait

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
Todd Gitlin

Power, Government, Book

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
James Weldon Johnson

Great, Proud, Ashamed

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