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"[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour."
"I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable."
"If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income."
"I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up."
"I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second."
"...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human."
"You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one."
"Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded."
"Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one"
"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich."
"That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history."
"The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device."
"To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had."
"Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges."
"Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn."
"In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget."
"The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock."
"I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid."
"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
"No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside."
