Serious Problems Quotes

I have never been a believer that serious government problems are solved by reorganization or shifting around bureaucracy.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

I think there’s more of a tendency now than in the past to avoid discussion of serious problems. It has a pernicious effect on our politics and on governing, because to govern, you need a mandate. And you don’t get a mandate if you don’t say what you’re going to do.

When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.

In my lab, we are constantly asking, 'What's the utility of this pure science that we're doing? Let's nudge it a little bit in a direction where people can connect to it and have some fun and/or help some very serious problems they have.'

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

When I see this, you know, 'Crooked Hillary,' or I see the, 'Lock her up,' it's just ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But I just - you know - it is beneath the character of the kind of dialogue we should have. Because we got real serious problems to solve. And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade.

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can't retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.

I can't see Jeremy Clarkson having very many serious problems in his working life in the long run.

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.