“We don't think we ought to have to do this. It's a federal job.”
Bob Wright
“The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.”
Carolyn Wells
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
“You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.”
Edgar A. Guest
“So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.”
Anita Loos
“Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.”
James P. Cannon
“We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.”
Sue Johanson