Radical Solutions Quotes

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

The more Democrats try to abandon the values and policies embodied in our platform, the more we will continue to lose. We can't win by running on incrementalism.

We are a little out of the box.

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

The problem with UKIP and the extreme right - Mr. Le Pen, Wilders - they are really good at making an analysis of the problem. And they immediately go completely overboard in providing a solution that would never work and is morally completely unacceptable.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

Putting aside the growing threat from Islamic jihadist terrorism, most of America's problems are home grown. So when I say overthrow the establishment to fix the economy, and the brilliant businessman Wilbur Ross says we need radical new approaches to government, we're talking two sides of the same coin.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have.

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.

People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

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

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.