Should Quotes

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.