“Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.” PeopleKnowsShouldSometimesBigsWalksSupportSolutionsResearchTablesPhilosopherFundCrackpots Author:Dale Jamieson
“The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.” PeopleWritingDifferentProblemFoundStudentsSolutionsEncountersFascinatingThinkerDifferent Peoples Author:Emily Barton
“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.” PeopleWorldNeedsCountryWholeProblemJobsCompanyEconomySolutionsResourcesProgramBasesMajorityDemocraticMeetingsProfitPermanentFuelMassiveTransitionNew WorldOwnershipFossilsInfrastructureFossil FuelRotting Author:Kshama Sawant
“Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.” PeopleTryingDesignClothesSolutionsEveryday Author:Christophe Lemaire
“The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.” WaySolutionsWingsAddressesAgendasProgressiveExtremismRight Wing Author:Jill Stein
“You know we have Democratic centrists here to blame for the economic conditions driving this rightwing extremism. So the solution here, you know, is not Hillary Clinton and more of the Clintonism centrist, the centrist Clinton philosophy that is greeding this economic misery.” KnowsPhilosophyEconomicConditionsSolutionsBlameMiseryDemocraticClintonDrivingExtremism Author:Jill Stein
“In terms of the role of the media, that is my candidacy which does provide that truly progressive agenda that gets to the heart of what is driving this right-wing extremism.It's not just Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is not going to be the solution here.” HeartDoeTermRolesMediaTrumpSolutionsWingsClintonDrivingAgendasProgressiveExtremismRight WingCandidacy Author:Jill Stein
“There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.” IfsRealRight NowSolutionsConviction Author:Jill Stein
“The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.” DoneUseAmountSolutionsResearchPaintEnormousHardestStableTestingHardy Author:Patricia Piccinini
“When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.” MayIssuesEasierSolutionsMedicalCoreBiologyMedical Science Author:James Redford
“I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal.” ThinkingNationsSolutionsImmigrationBranchesProposalLegislative Branch Author:Marco Rubio
“The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules, regulations, and simplification, and that is still a good reason, too. When they put their monetary union together, that created a rigidity that made it hard for currency fluctuations. They don't really have a solution to that.” MadeStillsHardStatesReasonBigsTogetherUnitedCommonUnited StatesEconomicCreatingSolutionsUnionsMade ItBordersRegulationCurrencyMonetaryRigiditySimplificationFluctuation Author:Jamie Dimon
“The best thing to do is muddle through and maybe, over time, create a solution of that, if someone really wanted to exit, the legal basis on which you could exit. Because right now there almost doesn't exist one.” IfsWantedRight NowSolutionsBasesBest ThingsThings To DoExitMuddle Author:Jamie Dimon
“The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.” ProblemPoliticalEconomicDevelopmentSolutionsEconomic DevelopmentDistraught Author:Akbar Ganji
“I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsHas BeensFactsBigsNaturalSolutionsGasCarbonEmissionsCarbon DioxideNatural GasCarbon Dioxide Emissions Author:Todd Young
“I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.” PeopleThinkingMeanProblemAbilitySawsPeriodsSolutionsBiggerSizeBillionsHolesWeekendPrivate Sector Author:Warren Buffett
“The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and by not being part of the new Iraq. They had reasons for this: They were effected by the disestablishment of the military and by de-Baathification (the dismantling of Saddam Hussein's party) in winter 2007-2007. They increasingly recognized that their future lay in being part of the solution rather than a continuing part of the problem.” MadeReasonProblemRealizingPartyMistakeMilitaryHugeSolutionsElectionLaysWinterIraqVotingContinuingSaddamHusseinNot Voting Author:David Petraeus
“I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?” PeopleMenTryingKindMeanCountrySeemsSufferingPoorWrittenLike YouEasierSolutionsConcernedFellowsClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingElitesOther CountriesAbstractionPoor PeopleNicholas Kristof Author:Tucker Carlson
“There are various different kinds of conservatives and different kinds of Republicans. We all come from different corners of our party. The key here is not only to unify and merge these approaches, but to also invite everyone else in America to get us focused on our solutions.” KindDifferentAmericaPartyKeysRepublicanApproachSolutionsVariousCornersFocusedInvitesDifferent Kinds Author:Paul Ryan
“Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.” WayWarPresidentCommunityCitiesPovertyViolenceConditionsWeaponsSolutionsBarackPresidencyFunding Author:Julianne Malveaux
“When Donald Trump attacks the trade deals, which have helped to gut the American working class, it's very powerful, even though his solutions are nonsense. And Hillary Clinton can't really defend it, because that's part of the life's work of her and her - of her and her husband.” DealsPowerfulClassTrumpHusbandSolutionsTradeClintonGutsNonsenseWorking ClassVery Powerful Author:Allan Nairn
“I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.” SolutionsInjusticeHopefulPalestinianIsraeli Author:Mairead Corrigan
“In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.” PeopleSaidGovernmentHappensPoliticalForceSolutionsIrelandPolitical WillNorthern Ireland Author:Mairead Corrigan
“People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.” PeoplePoliticalSolutions Author:Mairead Corrigan
“We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?” KnowsProblemJobsEnergyEconomicMiddleSourceDevelopmentIndustryHigherCreatingSolutionsIndependenceCleanOilEastPrioritiesDirtyAgendasWhy NotVotersMiddle EastCarbonEmissionsEconomic DevelopmentClean EnergyEnergy SourcesCarbon EmissionsCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.” PeopleThinkingProblemDreamFacesTermPartyCommonIssuesPolicyPositionRepublicanSolutionsDemocraticVariousSensesPracticalsCommon SenseCaptureRepublican PartyContradictoryDemocratic PartyIdeologicalCaricatures Author:Barack Obama
“The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.” PeopleLongPoliticalSolutions Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.” HumansI CanMovingSolutionsFaultsKingdomsBuddhistEmailMonkMeltingNunGlaciersBackdropBuddhist MonkLadakh Author:Bill McKibben
“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsLooksLongHelpingProblemDecisionEffortWeekOfficePerceptionSolutionsDecidedInternationalIraqAround The WorldAdministrationDataNosesTreatiesAmazementTenureKyotoPolling Author:Bill McKibben
“It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the world, and second of all did all the science originally around climate and global warming and presented that to the world, has been the country that has refused to participate in a constructive way to the solution.” WorldWayFirstsHas BeensCountrySolutionsClimateGlobal WarmingConstructiveEmbarrassmentEnvironmentalismShameful Author:Bill McKibben
“I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.” BelieveMayEarthSolutionsDon't BelieveCommunismFascism Author:Matteo Salvini
“People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.” PeopleThinkingProblemEnemyGroupsSolutionsComplexesPullingRejectingComplex Problems Author:Duncan Green
“There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.” IfsKnowsWayWould BePastWishBitsGaySolutionsLaysMiseryCaughtDecentBullyingTerrifiedDecent Life Author:Cleve Jones
“The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.” KnowsYearsMeanChildrenStatesProblemGovernmentJobsPastMillionsIssuesPolicySolutionsConsequenceWesternUniversityCorruptionChinaSolveWelfareGraduatesImmenseDemographicsWelfare State Author:Ai Weiwei
“Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.” IfsThinkingProblemGroupsSolutionsReachingMotivatedSincerely Author:Malcolm X
“That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.” MenShouldProblemAmericaGoalBlackKingsSolutionsDrsLutherDr Martin Luther King Author:Malcolm X
“Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” MenProblemTodayAmericaWhiteRaceSolutionsHonorableWhite ManMosesMuhammadElijahAmerica TodayPharaohsElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.” HeartProblemJobsSolutionsAspectTemporaryHousingBetter JobsTokenism Author:Malcolm X
“Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.” WellsRealPhilosophyProblemPoliticalProcessInterestLibertyPrinciplesSupportGroupsEconomicBuildingMembersSolutionsSecureWell BeingClassicArbitraryRestrictionPolitical PhilosophyReducingInterest GroupsNexus Author:James M. Buchanan
“Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.” AdviceSolutionsConvincedPeacefulSyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.” ShouldMatterWholeInterestDecisionIssuesSolutionsDecidedRelationBottomPracticalsRangeRelatedJapanAgendasFederation Author:Vladimir Putin
“I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.” PeopleNeedsBelieveCountryTodayPoliticalI BelieveInterestEconomicSecuritySolutionsAgreeVariousRussiaConclusionCompromiseOur CountryAnalysisExpertsAgencyJapanAcceptableMinistryImplications Author:Vladimir Putin
“Take the creation of the Pacific partnership or the creation of the Atlantic partnership. We are somewhat concerned because this is being done bypassing the World Trade Organisation, since it has proved impossible to reach compromise solutions with developing economies within the framework of that organisation. Is that good? Not really, in my opinion.” WorldDoneOpinionEconomyImpossibleCreationSolutionsConcernedTradeCompromiseDevelopingPartnershipFrameworkOrganisationPacificBeing DoneWorld Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“As a person who's been in the professional world for some 25 years now, my experience is that the best core solution, the best solution for us as we change the structure, is to power through with great work product.” WorldYearsPersonsProductsSolutionsStructureCoreGreat Work Author:Megyn Kelly
“When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.” IfsFeelsProblemMovingChallengesAbilityCreativeConversationSolutionsAverageDiscussionFuelSmarterFeel BetterProblem SolvingEmpoweredCreative Problem Solving Author:Michelle Gielan
“I'm very pleased this military engagement together with a political road map that we developed, we were able to continue. We want to bring about a political solution there. We worked very closely together [with Barack Obama] on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia's attempt to actually conquer Ukraine and actually, they did so, conquer part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.” WantAbleTogetherPoliticalIssuesMilitarySolutionsRussiaPeacefulConquerBarackMapsTerritoryEngagementUkraineSettlementRoad MapsCrimeaAnnexation Author:Angela Merkel
“Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort of preaching policies of - well, very unfriendly policies.” PeopleWellsLooksPolicySolutionsPreachingParliamentUnfriendly Author:Angela Merkel
“I don't want a one-state solution. But I certainly don't want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel's very existence would be jeopardized. And that's what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.” PeopleWantStatesWould BeExistenceSolutionsIsraelZero Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.” IfsSawsCitizensSolutionsPercentWestIsraelBlockNeighborhoodUrbanIsraeliJerusalemClustersCranes Author:Benjamin Netanyahu