#required

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#amount #become #call #compete #espn

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. ↗

— Wayne Allard

#big #contributing #employees #entire #gamble

Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #come #commercial #commercial success #few

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund. ↗

— Howie Carr

#fund #globe #now #practically #reporters

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#cents #courage #deal #forty #get

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#had #i #like #make #required

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. ↗

— Tom McCall

#i #measures #popular #realize #required

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#central #cold #cold war #courage #decades

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#environment #gave #government #happen #integral