“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”
Daily Telegram number 2768, Mr. Rogers Puts Us Down As A Nation of Fleas (19 June 1935)
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American humorist and entertainer 1879–1935Related quotes

“If we don't get to a higher place and
Find somebody, can help somebody,
Might be nobody no more.”
A Higher Place
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?
Context: The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know. All these therapies, all these techniques, religious or otherwise, are only perpetuating the agony of man.

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”
Source: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 20.

Interview with Evelyn Rich (March 1985)

“We'll walk away if we don't get the deal that we want.”
2010s, 2016, July, 2016 Republican National Convention (21 July 2016)