This economic catastrophe didn't develop overnight - its roots go back a number of years - and it can't be fixed overnight.

Sorry, folks, he said, the plane had not been fixed overnight.

"I never said in all this that our police department is perfect, but 30-year problems are not fixed overnight."

New Yorkers also seem to accept the mayor's argument that a vast bureaucracy cannot be fixed overnight.

Still, some of those problems reflect deep cultural attitudes and are unlikely to be fixed overnight.

After a disastrous decade, New Jersey's auto insurance problems will not be fixed overnight.

I can't even get my washing machine fixed overnight.

It became apparent to me that these problems couldn't be fixed overnight.

"This is not going to be a situation that is fixed overnight."

And in any case, Citigroup's problems cannot be fixed overnight.