Current Problems Quotes

The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

I think the war in the Mideast, how we got into it and how we're going to address the current problems, are issues that every American should be concerned about.

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.

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