I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
I haven't worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.
It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
