Crisis Quotes

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.