Our band needs a distinctive logo.

Our commitment must be as strong as our greatest needs require.

Our neighborhood policy needs support, not criticism.

I bought half our needs and hurried home.

But, globally, our innovation system needs much bigger changes.

And our administrative system needs to be thoroughly modernized.

Our capacity to deploy rapid reaction forces also needs strengthening.

The time has come to take a resolute decision reflecting the realities of our times, our needs and our hopes.

It's in clothing and food and our transportation needs, our energy we sprawl just a little bit.

Youth needs to be part of the discussion and decisions shaping our world for our common future.

But much more needs to be done to strengthen our collaboration across all areas of our work.

One thing the world needs, one thing this country desperately needs is a better way of conducting our political debates.

Moreover, as this debate underscored, the protection needs of civilians are still considerably greater than our capacity to meet those needs.

Our guiding light must be the needs and hopes of peoples everywhere.

As another participating leader put it, our global village needs global democracy.

International cooperation is in our self interest and needs to be mustered.

Our policy needs to, but so does each and everyone of us. What is our freedom worth to us?

Our own generation urgently needs to spur another era of great social change.

With your improved sense of our interconnectedness and diverse needs, you can do that.

When a fellow human being needs our protection, we have a duty to help.

Equally clearly, not all our current practices are adapted to the needs of today.

We are making a movement towards a more inclusive society by opening our eyes to people with special needs in our community.

We continue to need the cooperation and assistance of friendly countries to supplement our resources, which still fall short of our needs.

And we started asking ourselves the questions about how we were actually addressing the higher needs, these transformational needs for our key employees in the company.

Everyone, not just policymakers, needs to understand the consequences of our individual and collective choices.

But it needs to continue to be a focus of our efforts in the future.

Secondly, we have strengthened our methodology for the identification of States' needs for technical assistance.

Accordingly, we reaffirm our support for adequate funding to enable the Court to meet its needs.

Our responses to armed conflicts and our peacebuilding efforts must be based on sound knowledge of the situation and the needs of the victims.

But as we started asking ourselves about how we were addressing the higher needs of our employees and our customers, I realized we had no metrics.

Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.

How then can we not reaffirm our need for expertise and know how from the rich countries? Our needs for the mechanical and industrial wherewithal to develop our small and medium sized enterprises and industries, our need for digital solidarity to speed our development?

The story of how we became who we are needs to accommodate our sense of tribal solidarity and accomplishment.

By the same token, our mental image of the multigenerational extended family needs to include those in the West.

Mobilizing financial resources, both domestic and external, remains vital for landlocked developing countries to meet our special development needs.

However, our democracies have not yet been able to sufficiently meet the social needs that remain present throughout our territories in the form of hunger, unemployment and vulnerability.

But as you know, our philosophy with our whole model is that Africa needs to stop taking handouts as AID in its conventional model does not work in Africa.

Nothing about that prevents us from paying attention to the literacy needs of our boys between ages three and 13.

Our next challenge is include Singaporeans with special needs in the workplace. Many more employers have to do their part.

I urge Member States to give it the resources it needs to do the job thoroughly, in all our interests.

And, finally, we know from our own experience that reducing poverty needs strong economic growth and a vibrant private sector.

Following the implementation of NEEDS, in the past two years our agricultural production has grown by about 7 per cent annually.

Just as a firm needs to measure the depreciation of its capital, so, too, our national accounts need to reflect the depletion of natural resources and the degradation of our environment.

Poverty, hunger and diseases still decimate countless communities, while our capacity to respond to humanitarian crises needs to be reassessed and revitalized.

We know what needs to be done, why it is important, and who must be involved to secure our planet s long term future.