George Carlin Quotes

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

It is interest alone which does it, and it is interest alone which can be trusted.

Parishes can help lift up the moral and human dimension of public issues, calling people to informed participation in the political process.

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.

Not everything can be solved by government.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

I'll talk all this craziness in my music, but when I have your attention, and you're listening to me, I'll talk about what I want to talk about and what I think we need to address.

If you want to understand why something is happening in America just follow the money.

I think solving the problems of America is what's good.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

I have seen girls tackle every single big problem from cancer to lead poisoning to climate change to homelessness to bullying in schools. There is literally no problem that we can't solve.

Americans are calling for a return to common sense in how we solve problems and how the people communicate with their government.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.

Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.