Amy Klobuchar Quotes
You cannot solve a problem that you do not admit exists.
Amy Klobuchar, Hennepin County Prosecutor, Democratic Candidate for U. S. Senate, Senatorial Campaign Debate, NBC Meet the Press, October 15, 2006
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This is the classic political problem. It is much easier to determine what is wrong, but much harder to put it right. Politicians who harp on problems vigorously seem to escape the obligation of doing something about the problems.
Canada's first female Prime Minister
For an earlier expression of this idea see Martin Luther King Jr. {292902}, 1963.
Ideally problems of government would be prevented by good planning and anticipation. Once the political problem becomes evident, it is usually too late to resolve it well at reasonable cost. Machiavelli warned against waiting. However, he never imagined that a political problem would become evident, and the government officials or legislators would not deal with it and delay attempted resolution. However “kicking the can down the road” became very common in the latter part of the 20th century. By the beginning of the 21st century, the extreme political polarization of Congress had caused so much gridlock that almost no problem could be legislated upon, even well after it had been recognized.
Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County attorney.
