Crisis Quotes - page 2

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis. (Michael E. Porter)
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. View quote
Martha Beck
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. View quote
George Crumb
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. View quote
Lois Capps
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. View quote
Robbie Coltraine
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. View quote
Susan George
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. View quote
Sean Lennon
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. (Timothy Murphy)
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America. View quote
Vic Snyder
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public -- and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself. View quote
George Soros
There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of--to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more. View quote
George Eliot
Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence. (Saddam Hussein)
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. View quote
Norman Cousins
AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts. View quote
Ron Paul