“I think we need political courage and will right now. We need big bold ideas. We’re not going to solve these problems incrementally by putting bandaids on things. If this was a business the business would be bankrupt… We need transformation and that transformation comes from leadership. We’re in a crisis, we need decisiveness… I don’t think this is that hard. What’s hard is when you get people in a room who have ideology and re-election and polling. The elephant in the room is not the problem, it’s self-interest.” –Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday. (Photo credit: Cody Simms)