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Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs. -- Ruben Hinojosa
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years. -- Neal Boortz
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. -- John Lynch
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. -- Abraham Maslow
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. -- Kent Conrad
[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people. -- George W. Bush
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter. -- Harold S. Kushner
I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents. -- Edward Teller
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community. -- Parker J. Palmer
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. -- Thomas Carper
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive. -- Ayn Rand
For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money. -- Ray Dalio
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable. -- Lester R. Brown
You are rich if you have enough to meet your most basic needs. You are rich if you have access to clean water, food, shelter, love, a roof over your head.You have to count your blessings to see that you are richer than you think. -- Michelle Singletary
Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again. -- Vikas Khanna
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts. -- Dave Ramsey
Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met. -- John Bradshaw
You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people's basic needs. You can't eat sharia. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child. -- Peter Diamandis
Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime. -- Oscar Arias
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large. -- Andrea Jung
And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it. -- Peter Singer
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. -- Banksy
All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs. -- Peggy Noonan
All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds. -- Eva Gabor
The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene. -- Michael Shurtleff
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely. -- Yann Martel
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient. -- Michael Porter
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. -- Sherrod Brown
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. -- Carl Sagan
Food, clothing and shelter ? these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception. -- U.G. Krishnamurti
No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life. -- Bryant McGill
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way. -- Terence Winter
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs. -- Abraham Maslow
Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. -- Lawrence Auster
To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing. -- Olivia Newton-John
Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution. -- Bernie Sanders
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake. -- Satish Kumar
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work. -- Haruki Murakami
Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating. -- Dave Barry
Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom. -- Will Smith
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. -- David Rockefeller
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. -- William S. Burroughs
I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy. -- Manmohan Singh
UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed. -- Jane Curtin
I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality. -- Mary Robinson
If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money. -- Tony Hsieh

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