Fixing Issues Quotes

People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.

You have to fix something when it first appears.

The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.

My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

Once you have a culture problem, it's very hard to fix.

I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place.

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.