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“The [UN Security Council] P5 ought to be dissuaded from using their veto power, which can paralyze the United Nations. The country blocking action ought to have to explain its decision and propose an alternative solution. It has been suggested that a veto only becomes effective if the vetoing state has the support of two or three other permanent members.”

Ifs Has Beens Two Country States Action Three Nations Decision United Support Security Ought Members Solutions Block Alternatives Permanent United Nations Council Propose Veto Security Council

Author:Kofi Annan

“It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.”

People Giving Country Care Ought Take Care Humanitarian Aids Chinese Humanitarian Aid

Author:Leon Panetta

“Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”

Want Country Nations Wonder Policy Ought Happenings Golden Upset Bombs Foreign Policy Golden Rule

Author:Ron Paul

“My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.”

May Country Helping Existence Economic Serious Ought Majors Deserve Consequence Europe Crisis Permanent Dramatic Polish Poland Repercussions Economic Crisis

Author:Lech Walesa

“We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?”

Inspirational Years Said Country Ought Wealthy

Author:Jack Welch

“Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”

Knows World May Country Government America Law Ought Kings Absolutes Crowns Free Country

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”

Thinking Feels Has Beens Country Home Born Ought Mountain Longing Sweetest Longing For Home Till We Have Faces

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.”

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

Men Country Pleasure Company Society Ought Solitude Towns Seeking Sufficient Sensible This Society

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)