“The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.” NeedsStatesProblemDifficultUnitedUnited StatesPolicySeriousSolveImmigrationExpensiveInfrastructureEntitlementParalyzed Author:Fareed Zakaria
“While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.” WorldStatesProblemTodayUnitedUnited StatesSolveFewerToday's World Book:Hard Choices Source: Hard Choices
“I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.” PeopleThinkingStatesHelpingProblemUnitedUnited StatesGrewGrew UpSolveArtisticServantPermissionCivil Servants Author:Wallace Shawn
“I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingStatesProblemDifficultCommunityUnitedUnited StatesPolicyDependsHatredPrejudiceSolveTerroristDialogueDiscussionCubaExtremistCuban Author:Fidel Castro
“There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience.” WellsStatesProblemNationsVoiceUnitedUnited StatesConscienceLet MeClimate ChangeIncludingSolveIndifferenceDiminishUrgency Author:Paul Martin
“If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank and Jordan could then be united. There is already a Palestinian majority in Jordan, and there is enough room for everyone there. That would be the best revolution I could imagine.” IfsEnoughWould BeOpportunityUnitedRoomsImagineRevolutionConflictIdealsMajorityWestSolveBeing The BestPalestinianIsraeliMonarchyJordanIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Tom Segev
“Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.” StatesEnergyWaterUnitedUnited StatesIssuesAirCenturyCrisisSpeciesSolvePollution21st CenturyExtinctionShortageOverpopulationAir PollutionGridlockEnergy CrisisSpecies Extinction Author:Frosty Wooldridge