All Quotes

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
‐‐ Jane Elliot

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.
‐‐ Malcolm Wallop

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne

We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
‐‐ Rand Paul

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.
‐‐ Richard Mourdock

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
‐‐ Artur Davis

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
‐‐ Philip Pullman

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
‐‐ Adam Hamilton

We don't need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.
‐‐ Tim Walz

We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.
‐‐ Burning Spear

We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

We don't need secrecy.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.
‐‐ Mehmet Oz

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.
‐‐ Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.
‐‐ Michael Steele

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
‐‐ James Cromwell

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
‐‐ Zong Qinghou

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.
‐‐ Lionel Barber

We don't need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
‐‐ Ted Chiang

We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous.
‐‐ Alexandra Kleeman

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

We don't own the team; we just rent it. The fans own it, and a lot of times, they haven't been happy with the renter.
‐‐ Rocky Wirtz

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
‐‐ Leona Helmsley

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
‐‐ Alexander Kluge

We don't plan on winning in August - we plan on winning in November.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
‐‐ Pope Theodoros II

We don't pretend to disagree.
‐‐ Gene Siskel

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss