When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.
If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life—yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear—then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.
Every problem has a limited life span.
I have no problem doing gay stuff, I really don't care.
Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.
We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.
The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster. "
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.
See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.
If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.
Football coaches don't have real problems.
Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.