Community organizers are always told they can't do something or are dismissed as meaningless.
"If we don't do something about the sea wall, it will threaten some important tourist attractions, " she said.
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In either case, if Palm doesn't do something dramatic in 2008, it's done.
If we don't do something about it, what we've seen this last time is going to look minuscule in comparison.
"He just reached the conclusion that if he didn't do something, the country would go to pieces, " Mr. O'Neill said.
New York State is out of patience here, and if you don't do something fast, we'll do it for you.
But just because so much of what we believe is wrong doesn't mean we still can't do something about the issue.
"The next time I am going to vote Republican if he doesn't do something serious and concrete for immigration reform, " he says.
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He even found a common theme to connect them - just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you shouldn't do something.
If we don't do something to cut costs, it's going to continue to skyrocket -- the deficit, the debt, each of those things.
When somebody told me that I couldn't do something or be something, that just gave me a greater challenge to prove them wrong.
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"The casual fallout is going to be significant if we can't do something to try to assist Mexico in stopping it south of the border, " Goddard said.
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Money got tight because of the imbalances of the economy and implications of that for the future, and if you didn't do something to deal with it, you'd have a worse recession.
"If we don't do something about it we could lose an awful lot of talent, an awful lot of people who can contribute fantastically to the country and I just think that's wrong, " he said.
"This is an incredible opportunity for my city that I feel like I'm going to miss out if I don't do something, and yet what I do is not going to hit the mark, " he said.
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Moody's, the credit-rating agency, got publicity--for once, not negative--in January when it warned that the U.S. government may lose its triple-A rating within a decade if Uncle Sam doesn't do something drastic about the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Then he won't say something or do something that we'll, you know, we'll regret later.
Why don't you do something else if it's about money and position.
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"In a way that is fine - as long as we don't have to do something like that again, " he warns.
"Apple always tries to say 'available right now' on any new product, and the fact that they couldn't do that says something, " he explains.
It was from IBM, telling me my organization was "forcing" them to do something they didn't want to do, and generally dressing me down for making an issue of the bald-faced sexism that their sponsorship supported.
Each man in that platoon doesn't have something to do his job.
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And then when I had enough, I decided that it would be great to show them because people don't expect me to do something like this.
"You don't want to say or do something that might position you in the wrong light, " says Cohen.
"I couldn't believe that they could do something like that, " he said Friday.
"When I retired, I wanted to do something different, something that people don't see, " Rivera said.
"It's an opportunity to do something that a lot of people don't do or will ever do, so that's awesome, " Cashman said.
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