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"To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure."
"The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs."
"We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class."
"We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process."
"A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs."
"So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it."
"Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity."
"I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections."
"Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last."
"You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything."
"I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done."
"Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it."
"Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions."
"Become a teacher. Your country needs you."
"They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'"
"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
"I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era."
"Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs."
"The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray."
"That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper."
