Amitai Etzioni Quotes

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

The extreme scarcity of political leaders of any caliber is owing to the fact that they are called upon to decide at any moment, and in detail, problems which the increased size of societies may well have rendered insoluble.

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Everywhere I look, I see the possibilities of what America could be. But we can't solve any of these problems by relying on the politicians who created them.

I hope to see no in-fighting and lots of cooperation. We can either all be part of the problem, or part of the solution, but I think we will all work together well on the same team.

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

We can't solve all of our problems in a short time.

No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

People like Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, who have spent Rs 500 crore to build their brands, will take that money back from us only. How can they deliver good governance?

The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.