“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.” NeedsLooksPersonsWarOrderNextWinningStrongBrainGenerationsPoliticianElectionConservativeNext GenerationStatesmen Author:Winston Churchill
“Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.” PeopleNeedsYoungEasyPoliticianMeetingsGuilty Author:Ama Ata Aidoo
“I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.” ThinkingWorldNeedsDifferentSchoolVoiceLeaderTeacherMilitaryPoetPoliticianRight NowMusicianPainterFilmmakerDriversComing OutTaxiSchool TeachersMilitary LeaderDifferent Voices Author:Michael Franti
“I really like John Legend as an artist and as a person. As well as Lyfe Jennings. Jeezy is good people as well. I like to interview Nick Cannon. He always has something interesting to say. I still enjoy talking to Jay-Z or Nas which was weird since we had so much history. I also enjoyed talking to the Mayor of Detroit as politicians because they need to hear the hip hop side of the community that they don't hear from on a regular basis.” PeopleNeedsWellsPersonsStillsArtistEnjoySidesCommunityInterestingTalkingPoliticianBasesHip HopEnjoyedHipsInterviewsHopsLegendsGood PeopleMayorsDetroitCannonsSomething Interesting Author:MC Serch
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.” PeopleNeedsWritingSeemsSchoolLevelsKnownClassPlansMiddlePolicyProducePoliticianBenefitsProgramBlindSpotsExcellentMiddle ClassRetirementUrgentSalaryEditsNanniesBlind SpotsHealth BenefitsUpper Middle Class Author:Judith Warner
“It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.” NeedsKindDifferentFeelingsHappensStuffSidesTalkingEconomicPoliticianMouthsArgumentBoth Sides Author:Howard Dean
“I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.” NeedsNextVisionDependsPoliticianClintonCalculating Author:John Kasich
“Look, in any system, you want highly ethical people who really understand issues to form policies and make tough decisions. You need all the right people in the room. But there's a general view in Washington now by many politicians that if you ever were on this side, you're conflicted for being on that side.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsLooksFormSidesDecisionRoomsViewsIssuesPolicyPoliticianToughEthicalTough Decisions Author:Jamie Dimon
“No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.” IfsNeedsMeanDoneBodyPoliticalTeamPoliticianInternationalIraqBoardsContracting Author:Ken Loach
“It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.” IfsKnowsNeedsIndividualSocialTalkingIssuesEconomicPolicyPoliticianCostIslamScreensSmokeJustifyForeign PolicyTopicsSpotlightInefficiencyEconomic Issues Author:Tariq Ramadan
“There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.” NeedsDoubtPoliticianBlameManageNo DoubtMigrationMigrants Author:Sadiq Khan
“I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the path America is on, we have got to be fighting for policies not that benefit the giant corporations and the banks and the special interests and the lobbyists, which is what Washington focuses on every day, but instead every policy needs to focus on the working men and women, the truck drivers and the steelworkers, and the young people.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenNeedsAmericaYoungFightingInterestPathFocusSpecialPolicyHe ManListeningPoliticianBenefitsMen And WomenCorporationsGiantsDriversTruckSpecial InterestsLobbyistsWorking ManTruck Driver Author:Ted Cruz
“You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."” NeedsGamesOne ThingTrumpPrayingPolitician Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You could say, very concerned about our younger generation that does not have the jobs they need to get themselves out of the debt that they're in. And have the full weight of the climate crisis exploding on them - on their watch.” NeedsDoeJobsMotherWatchesFireGenerationsPoliticianTrainingConcernedDoctorsWeightCrisisClimateDebtMedicalPhysiciansYounger GenerationExplodingMedical Doctor Author:Jill Stein
“There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.” PeopleWayNeedsPersonsHelpingUseGovernmentDifficultInformationCitizensPoliticianProgramAccessSmall BusinessBetter WaysMazesGovernment Programs Author:Sher Valenzuela
“As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.” NeedsRunningMovingChoicesAbilityDecisionUnitedResultsPowerfulMillionsSupportDemocracyBrotherCitizensPoliticianOfficeElectionCourtDollarsSpendingSupremeCandidatesWealthySupreme CourtFundingBillionaireContributorsAmerican DemocracyCourt DecisionCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsDoneGovernmentStuffInterestMillionsGroupsHugePoliticianHillsVotersOrganizeCoalitionsCapitolInterest GroupsCapitol Hill Author:Jonathan Rauch
“I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWould BeViolencePolitician Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.” IfsWorldNeedsSeemsAnswersFocusPoliticianOffersInvestmentSpendingAlternativesBridgesInfrastructureDefaultAusterityImfWorld Bank Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.” ThinkingKnowsWayNeedsFirstsDecisionCompanyPoliticianConceptsAmazing ThingsTransactionsMost AmazingNounsVernacularArticulating Author:Simon Sinek
“I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.” PeopleNeedsNamesFocusPoliticianCallingName Calling Author:Charles Schumer
“There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.” NeedsLittlesBigsGovernmentTodaySupportModernPoliticianSkillsTrainingDollarsExtraordinaryBillionsExtraordinary ThingsBig QuestionsSupport Systems Author:Tony Blair
“Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMightArtistPoliticianDelegates Author:Mohsin Hamid
“A smart politician needs to come in and create a plan for when our students graduate college, there are opportunities in fields that interest them and a job that's a career. A president whose plans can embrace and incorporate every millennial will be successful.” NeedsJobsOpportunityPresidentInterestCareersSuccessfulPlansFieldsStudentsCollegePoliticianSmartEmbraceBeing SuccessfulGraduatesMillennials Author:Soledad O'Brien
“As Muslims, we must have an active presence based on ethical and moral consistency. We need to be very vocal, to inform people, to demonstrate when necessary. We need to write so that the people understand that what they are getting from the media and politicians is biased and not accurate. And this is true especially when it comes to some communities within the U.S. or with respect to the Middle East and Africa. This is what I am expecting from a new generation of leaders: Meet these expectations of moral consistency.” PeopleNeedsWritingCommunityLeaderMoralGenerationsMiddleMediaPoliticianExpectationsActiveEastEthicalMiddle EastExpectingAccurateConsistencyVocalNew GenerationBiased Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.” NeedsCrazyMovementPoliticianWingsProgressiveTomsDelayImmoralRight WingSeanPunditsNewtsProgressive Movement Author:Moby
“I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.” NeedsCountryHoursPrayerPoliticianTrackOur CountryBack On Track Author:Lewis Black
“When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.” PeopleNeedsEndsTermPayCarHonestyIgnorancePoliticianEthicsSellsBottomProfessionListsCleverAgentsInsecurityPreySalesmanCar SalesmanInsurance Agent Author:James Surowiecki