The Democratic Presidential candidates offer voters mostly painless solutions to the nation's economic problems.

He didn't understand that; there was no painless solution.

But it is pointless to look for a painless solution to the mess that we are all in.

Because, in our panicked search for a quick, painless solution, we asked them to.

There are, I fear, no quick, painless solutions to our environmental problems.

Very few things in life are amenable to quick, painless solutions.

Many proposals that appear to offer painless solutions have significant hidden costs that must be taken into consideration.

He said his transition team was still working on ways to bridge the gap and warned that there were no quick or painless solutions.

Everything about the current accounting system conspires to prevent action today, when relatively painless solutions are still possible.

But no minister should suppose that this would provide a painless solution, for the government would have to raise its own taxes dramatically.