The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
Education is the single most important job of the human race.
Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.
A Polish guy locked his keys in the car. It took an hour to get his wife out.
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.
You've got to find the quarterback. Once you find the quarterback, you can fix the other things.
What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.
