"With the magnitude of the challenges we..." - Quote by Barack Obama
With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.
More by Barack Obama
“I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.”
“So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.”
“What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.”
More on Governance
“If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.”
“Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.”
“When taxes are too high, people go hungry.”
More on Problem Solving
“Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.”
“I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.”
“The only time I get frustrated with activist criticism is if I have recognized them, and invited them to work with me to figure out how we solve this problem that they're concerned about, and either they don't engage out of the sense of purity - "I'm not going to shake his hand" - or you're not sufficiently prepared so you don't even know what to ask for, or you're not being strategic as an activist and trying to figure out how the process has to work in order for you to get what you want.”