Collective Solutions Quotes

Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

All human endeavor, all human civilization, is the act of solving collective action problems. Should we put out our own fires, or should we have a fire department? Should we build roads, or should we hack our way through the woods from one factory to another?

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.

I do believe that this country is the greatest on this planet and that we can come together and get great answers together.

Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.

I told New Jerseyans that I would find ways to work for commonsense, bipartisan solutions to some of our greatest challenges.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.