Louis Uchitelle Quotes

No government at any level has all the answers.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

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

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

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.

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

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

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

We shall either find a way or make one.

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.

I don't think there's ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.

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

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

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.

If answers to our national problems were [readily] available we would not have to spend all our time talking about them.

You don't have smooth sailing in the American system no matter who's in charge.