Long Term Issues Quotes

I think climate change is probably the most extreme, and it's been going on for years because it's very difficult to talk about a planetary issue like climate change and to get people who live within four-year electoral cycles to actually pay attention to something that you predict is happening way in the future.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.