Frank B. Kellogg Quotes

We can not cure great and inveterate evils at once

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have to live like this; no one deserves this. We must do better, and we will.

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

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

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

I am not running for president in order to put Band-Aids on our problems.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

So complex are all the ingredients that cause gang membership that it seems virtually impossible to isolate one solution that can address them all and thereby manufacture a hope for the future upon which these kids can rely.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.

I get the urge people will have after Trump. 'Look at the chaos and the exhaustion: Wouldn't it be better to go back to something more stable with somebody we know?' But there's no going back to a pre-Trump universe. We can't be saying the system will be fine again just like it was. Because that's not true; it wasn't fine.

There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.

We need to confront our real problems, not indulge in false solutions that make them worse.