Systemic Problem Quotes

The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All lives should indeed matter, but we have a systemic problem in this country in which black lives do not matter enough.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

We are optimistic with respect to thrifts .... I don't think that there is any cause for undue concern and I would reject any suggestion that we are in the midst of some sort of a major systemic problem with respect to any element of our financial services industry.

The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.

Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...

Almost half of the Black young men in America are not employed. There are not that many lazy people in the entire country..

Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!