Problem quotes

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.