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Going into this week, we felt it was important to win both of these games. We felt we were better than both of the teams we played, we felt we should win, and I'm happy that we did. It ought to boost our confidence.

He's a really strong guy who's worked really hard. It ought to be a real good battle between him and Tyler Donaldson in the fall for the starting job.

There is a paradox because I think you've struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication.

I absolutely think he?s a conservationist in the good sense of that word, and he?s not out there on the fringe following a dogma, but rather trying to solve problems. People ought to consider themselves very lucky that they have him in that position rather than someone who might be considered a demagogue.

He's pitched great for us the last two years, so he ought to be able to throw with confidence. But it's a tough business. He's one of those guys that lives and dies with his outings because he cares so much.

He's perfect... perfect. You ought to see him. He's just a little thing, but he'll get bigger as time goes by, and we just can't wait for him to come home.

I agreed with the Nonaligned Movement today that we should have an intergovernmental negotiation process and that the entire text ought to be open, ... We are making progress. We are ready to go.

Having a home, husband, and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we are meant for, isn't it? But still I think every day is a lost day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is pressed down in a bag and suffocated.

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.

Kid, there's something I ought to tell you. I never shot anybody before.

I would think that that's something that we ought to look at very, very carefully and see if there can be a constructive role.

I would think that humanitarian aid to Americans ought to come right at the top of priority lists, ... I, for one, would support all the aid that makes sense to help these places get back together. And if that means that lesser priorities -- and there are plenty that they spend federal tax dollars on out there (in Washington) -- need to take a back seat for a while, that's probably what they should do.

Just put in there we are a poorly coached team. A very poorly coached team. That ought to do it.

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

I think it is fair to say that the Act has been a worthwhile experiment. Like most experiments that are professionally conducted, it has yielded significant results, ... The results, I believe, support this conclusion: Jurisdiction and authority over these cases ought to be returned to the Justice Department. And who will oversee them? The Congress, the press and the public.

It became pretty clear that a lot of people think we ought to build a water park, so we're wrapping our thoughts around a scenario that has both short- and long-term goals to get one built.

It appears credible that the opposition is winning. The U.S. believes the (Yugoslav) government ought to respect the will of the people.

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

It certainly raises a big red flag when Lilly is attempting to sidestep the entire issue. They ought to be upfront and honest with Minnesota and other shareholders if this is an action they are considering." ()

It is a game that somebody ought to put a stop to -- trying to get dirt on jurors. We shouldn't be asking about 40-year-old arrests. Why do we need it? So these lawyers can play all of these strategic games?

It is a fairly slow process. One ought not to expect too much in the way of overnight changes.

It is all well and good we want to reduce emissions in 2018 by 70 percent, ... We can do better than that. We ought to do better than that.

I think the market ought to be satisfied with the idea that at least there's not going to be anymore tightening. You know, it's only a couple months ago that people were saying the Fed was going to tighten all through the fall. So now that it looks like they're not, people are saying, wow, maybe they'll ease now. But I think that is quite a way off, probably some time next year.

I think the president ought to meet with this mother. What I would say to her is her son will always be remembered as a great hero and a patriot, advanced freedom in Iraq and the Middle East, has made this country more secure.

I think the president ought to comply and help here.

I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English

I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought, ... If you're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.

I think you ought to take advantage of whatever rally, if you have one today, to trim whatever holdings you have that may be a disproportionate percentage in your portfolio. You know, I've been negative on the very richly priced high tech, not all tech, but the very richly priced high tech, and I don't think it is too late to sell these.

I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

I think you ought to dominate the league. I think the program ought to dominate the league, and that makes it a player nationally. I think that's very possible and very doable. I would say right now this is a very good program. The program is good, but the goal ought to be to be great.

I think the government ought to stay out of other people's business.

I think that there is an implication here, as they've done throughout this debate on Iraq, that if you oppose the president, your patriotism ought to be questioned, ... Meet the Press.

I thought we ought to follow the army around for a couple months instead of a week or two, and to do an hour and a half thing instead of a 45 second clip.

I thought there might be a few people around. I had no idea that I would encounter this incredible turnout, ... Watching these Connecticut Yankees get ready to help some Cajuns in Louisiana, southerners in Mississippi and Alabama, is a great sight. If you want to know what America looks like, what we ought to look like, take a look at the picture behind you. This is America at its very, very best.

I thought the quitclaim deed to Gary ought to have it worked out.

I think we ought to wrap up our business and go out and let the American people tell us which way they'd like the country to go, ... Meet the Press." ()

I think we ought to take it down -- take the damn thing down,

I think we ought to raze that prison,

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

I think we ought to have more dialogue on this. It's so different from what we've done.

I think we ought to have a team out there somewhere today of Islamicists, Middle Eastern experts, academic experts and those things that says to us what could come next.

I think we ought to go right ahead and see if we can't move toward a budget resolution that does not take the CPI in to consideration,

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,

I think we ought to be forgiving. The president said he's sorry. I think we need to have a proper punishment -- maybe censure by the Congress -- and move on and deal with the problems facing this county.

I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,

I think that ought to lead to crisper, faster actions on certain kinds of decisions we need to make,

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.

I think we should consider some relief for people, ... We did last year, and I think it ought to be on the table again this year.

I think what is keeping both of them going is the record, ... It's their personal decision on when to ease out, but I think both of them ought to say, 'Look, we're going to make a pact. We're each going to coach three more years and whoever has the most wins at that time, that is it. That will be the winner of the all-time record.' Otherwise, they're gonna just keep coaching.

I think that Dave Halle ought to be congratulated.

I think certainly he's concerned that he's not going to get the endorsement, but we understood what the rules were from the beginning and we ought to stick to the rules.

I think bonds are appropriate for anybody that is close to retirement or is already retired and feels like they need that security and that defensiveness, ... appropriate diversification for a lot of people. But for people who are young and who can put money away for a long time, they really ought to be overwhelmingly in stocks.

I think a coach ought to be able to give his opinion and coach his team. I didn't see anything myself that should have gotten (Byrd) ejected from the game.

I think it's time for the people in Chicago to understand that there's an American League team and a National League team, and we ought to root for both of those teams. We're Chicago fans. This business of hating the other team is ridiculous.

I think this is great progress and we ought to celebrate it,

I think we all ought to be questioning all the time and learning and growing. And I think that's what we need, but it's not my deal, I don't think.

I think that the criterion ought to be: Who's the best person available for the job? And many of us have called for a nominee who comes from a background other than one of being a jurist. And now we have a person who is like that. ... You've got to go to America to find lawyers, and Dallas is as good a place as any to find lawyers.

I think that the country needs a debate that's not a screaming match. . . . And I think too many times we have these arguments on these talk shows where they're trying to get ratings by generating heat, when we ought to be trying to generate more light.

I think that the Board of Education ought to revisit this issue,

It is not a fact that people must get hospital-acquired infections. The goal ought to be the prevention of every single hospital-acquired infection.

I think that we ought to say in this area that we do not intend to stop working until America is the safest big country in the world,

I think that we ought to have more women on the court. Two is a bare minimum. We really ought to have more,

I think that it's so critical when you make a request to the Congress to authorize and appropriate $38 billion for homeland security, somebody ought to come up and explain just how you're going to spend it, ... Those issues are going unanswered in large measure because Mr. Ridge refuses to testify. We just have to find a way hopefully without the use of coercion to have those questions answered for the record.

I think that it's a cut in the budget that is not wise, ... We've seen the benefits of that type of preparation and public education to both businesses, homeowners and governments, so I think we ought to keep that money because it can save lives and cut down on future losses.

I think that it is an excellent school, but it ought also to be a model for how to conduct employee relations, between an employer and an employee, and I don't think that it does that,

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

I will review all of the material that is relative in every way. I'm going to be very sensitive about that. You are playing with people's lives and reputations and you ought to be very careful.

I think they ought to send up all the ballots up in a unified way, ensuring the integrity of the evidence.

I think they ought to move to South Carolina, some place where you can sell that stuff, ... Union bashing has never worked in California.

I think they ought to burn every one of them. There is no excuse for what they've done.

I think they ought to be ashamed of themselves,

I think these people ought to give their head a shake and ask themselves how much of that money would have even come to the Liberal party if I hadn't been there.

I think the whole leadership is in agreement this is what ought to happen, both the House and the Senate,

It is a surprising report in just about all respects. But I think it is something that we have to expect in times like these that the data doesn't always fit into a neat little model of what we think ought to be happening.

I think there's less worry on the consumer, and our focus ought to be more: 'Does business, capital spending pick up?'... That's much more meaningful going forward.

I think there's enormous potential in terms of solar power and wind power all along the coastal areas and I think we ought to take advantage of it.

I think there's a strong argument that it ought not to be located in downtown Washington because of the desire to have some distance, you know, between ourselves and some other buildings,

I think the question of how we deal with our client is probably something we ought to keep to ourselves. It's private and privileged.

Japan ought to refer to (the Bank of England's 2% inflation target).

Jerry Sloan, not some bum, coaches that team. Jerry Sloan ought to take him (Miller) out one of these days, and then resign or walk out.

I say now and have often said before, Fathers of the Senate, that a well-disposed and helpful prince, to whom you have given such great and unrestrained power, ought to be the servant of the Senate, often of the citizens as a whole, and sometimes even of individuals.

is designed for the working poor and the poor. If we are not happy about the results, then the real question we ought to be asking ourselves is whether we should be changing the rules. Wal-Mart is an invitation to have that debate.

Our children are being taught a terrible lesson right now. The president of the United States, in all due respect to him and his office, he has hurt the office of the presidency and I believe he ought to be ashamed of himself.

Parents want one kid in one room and do it without a whole lot of thought about it. Giving them their own room means you're a good provider, doing a good job; you ought to do it. But that's parental satisfaction. The privacy might be good for the parent but maybe not so good for the kid. It's something they should think about.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Rita Cosby: Live and Direct. They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones that let a pedophile go.

Religious faith is a powerful force for good, and it ought to result in people coming together and showing concern for each other. It should not be used as a way to justify a political position, or to be identified with a particular political party. The teachings of Jesus should cause us to be concerned about the sick and poor. That's the type of effect religion should have on public policy.

Planetary protection is important and if one were to discover life on Mars then it would be perfectly sensible to say that there are certain areas that ought to be protected,

People who use the system ought to have some say in decisions of that system. I think they (FAA) certainly look to us for advice and counsel, but I don't thinks we have that kind of input now.

President Bush believes that the promise of Social Security fulfilled over the last 70 years ought to be a promise we keep for future generations. Scoring political points by shirking responsibility for tomorrow's seniors is not a birthday party Americans can afford to attend.

Our relationship with the United States is central to our foreign policy and ought to be one of a deep and enduring partnership.

Organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status ought not endorse specific candidates for public office. What we have in Odessa, what some people actually seem to be proud of, is an ongoing problem with separating the prerogatives of church and state.

Patients expect pharmacists ought to know about this thing. My God, it's your business!

Our model is to have a lot of people offering highly tailored solutions in local markets. A lot of the other hosting models (from competitors) have more of a model of one-flavor CRM that they think everybody ought to use, and there's not much chance to add custom extensions.

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

Surely we ought to respect the rights of all involved in the case.

Sure, it's essential I believe because it is one of these economic stimulants. There are so many areas in our state that we ought to be able to promote. I think they probably haven't come at us with much oomph either or it's been the same old message, but I've always been very receptive to the whole idea of tourism.

Stephen Burke is a very able executive. When he left, the company began to fall on bad times, ... Steve is the kind of guy that Disney ought to be populating all its divisions with.