“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.” WayNeedsMovingEnergyTechnologyPathWindHugeWallHappeningsWindowCleanPaintMoving ForwardFasterNew WaysBikeClean Energy Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.” IfsNeedsHas BeensEndsCultureSilenceBreakViolenceWallOppositesPoliceBlueDecadesPolice Violence Author:Hakeem Jeffries
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.” NeedsShouldWellsUnderstandingVisionIssuesDoorsStyleWallReaderPerceptionBiggerMagazinesHopefullyEditorsSurprisingBalancedCrewBangsDoors Of Perception Author:Toni Jerrman
“Here comes the pope saying, "Well, that may be true about Cruz, but you build walls, and we Christians don't do that. So you're not a Christian, either." Sometimes all you can do is chuckle. I mean, you need a break from it some. You just can't be intense and wadded up all the time here, folks.” NeedsWellsMayMeanSometimesChristianCan DoBreakWallFolksIntenseBeing TruePopeCruzChuckles Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.” NeedsGivingJobsPresidentQualityTalkingStreetsWallFineSpeechSummerConcernedPrioritiesBarackDetroitLarryPresident Barack ObamaHigh Quality Author:Cornel West
“The next Wall Street crash is just around the corner. The meltdown of the climate is coming. The wolves are at the door, all kinds of them. We need to stand up and provide the solutions that are there, that are affordable.” NeedsKindNextDoorsStreetsWallSolutionsClimateCornersAll KindsCrashAffordableAround The CornerMeltdowns Author:Jill Stein
“There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.” IfsWayNeedsCountryAbleJobsUnitedStreetsCreationCollegeWallCitizensMajorsElectionCrisisWingsClimateClimate ChangeListsOur CountryCandidatesAddressesMinimumRight WingBillionaireMinimum WageCollege EducationJob CreationCitizens UnitedAffordability Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.” IfsNeedsWellsRunningEconomyStreetsWallEnginesEfficientMain Street Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.” PeopleKnowsNeedsImportantStatesRememberEnergyCitiesIssuesWallTrumpPromiseTaxesIndependenceTradeCourtIslamProfitFocusedSupremeRadicalCorporateBordersSupreme CourtRefugeeObamacareDrainsStay FocusedFree TradeSwampsImportant IssuesInner CityVetsRadical IslamEnergy Independence Author:Sean Hannity
“I was part of the gang of eight in the house in 2013 that was working on comprehensive immigration reform. We talked a lot about border security and what was effective and what was not. Walls are not effective when you`re out in the desert and you don`t need them.” NeedsHouseSecurityWallEightImmigrationReformDesertBordersGangComprehensiveImmigration ReformBorder Security Author:John Yarmuth
“For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.” PeopleNeedsMeanAmericaYoungPoliticalWinningProcessClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallStandingDemocratGreedCorporateCandidatesAddressesMiddle ClassVotersNow And ThenCorporate AmericaVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.” PeopleNeedsTwoMightTogetherStreetsWallOughtIraqAfghanistanPalestineWise PeopleOccupy Wall Street Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsPersonsRealJobsMovingFallHouseSidesHoursHurtSeeingSkyWallThreatIsraelBlockBombsHospitalsTerritoryPalestinianBoth SidesGazaMazesHamasGaza Strip Author:Morgan Spurlock
“Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.” NeedsWritingSaidDoneGenerationsWallMissionsBetray Author:Chinua Achebe
“America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.” NeedsWarAmericaPresidentPartyStreetsWallProtectDemocraticRussiaBad ThingsPartnershipDemocratic PartyTransPacificAusterity Author:Michael Hudson
“I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsShouldStreetsBuildingWallEmptyHeyThievesHousingSquatters Author:Al Lewis
“Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.” IfsNeedsFacesStreetsMovementWallMeetingsCorporateBoardsYour FaceAssaultCampusHeadquartersBoard Meetings Author:Michael Moore
“I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.” NeedsActingFashionDesignMovementWallLowsMagazinesArtisticPerformingBuyingDepartmentPlatesFashion Magazines Author:Alanis Morissette
“It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'” NeedsEnoughPoliticalEconomyStreetsWallAngerScreamDemonstrationPolitical SystemsOccupy Wall Street Author:Colin Powell
“The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.” NeedsClassStreetsMiddleWallInstitutionsDemocraticMiddle ClassFedsCeo Author:Bernie Sanders
“Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.” NeedsCountryGovernmentPresidentDealsStreetsWallCorporatePermanent Author:Cornel West