Realistic Solutions Quotes

What matters most is finding practical, pragmatic solutions .... Ideological purity is for partisan extremists.

But only a candidate who rejects wishful thinking, has the courage to tell the truth about the options in front of us and who will address Brexit on the basis of the hard realities will succeed.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative. I say neither - I'm pragmatic.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

Just as men cannot eat slogans, neither can statesmen solve problems with rhetorical cliches and abstract formulas.

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.