“Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.”

“...we've already had one horrible thing happen today, which means that if you think about it the odds of anything else horrible happening again in the next few hours should now be quite low.”

“ I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ”

“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”

“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”

“I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.”