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This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.
David Axelrod

Work, Future, Forward

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

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan

Respect, Someone, Country

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
John Goodman

Same, Poor, Plan

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

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

Worship, Leading, Terms

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
Jay Inslee

Focus, Reason, President

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

You ought to try being cruel to some people.
Mike Judge

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

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

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
Robert Reich

Government, Business, Live

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
Leland Stanford

Life, Good, Great

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

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
William Falconer

Great, Important, May

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner

Nature, Fitness, Him

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner

Against, Laws, Property

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
Germaine Greer

Love, Same, Whole

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre

Power, Complain, Loves

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

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
William Vickrey

Job, Person, Find

Those who own the country ought to govern it.
John Jay

Country, Govern

We ought to be bragging about Florida!
Rick Scott

Bragging, Florida

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
Emma Goldman

Good, Woman, Others

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
Matthew Macfadyen

Time, Off, Useful

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
Matthew Macfadyen

Stress, Fall, Seen

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
Floyd Abrams

Win, Country, Sometimes

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Frances Wright

Knowledge, Mind, Human

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
Gunter Grass

Words, Chance, Growth

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