Crisis Quotes · Page 46

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

— Lester R. Brown

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life…

— Luke Evans

During a public health crisis, families, seniors, and veterans need to have reliable access to their doctors and caregivers.

— Abigail Spanberger

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and…

— Joe Biden

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well…

— Desmond Tutu

“The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. --John F.…

— John F Kennedy

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

— R. Lee Wrights

I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they]…

— Brooksley Born

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to…

— Romano Prodi

The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here,…

— Barack Obama

By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by…

— John Beddington

“But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way.…

— Jennifer DeLucy

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and…

— Noam Chomsky

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has…

— Robert Greenwald

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on…

— Milton Friedman

“We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and…

— Tarun Betala

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby…

— Upton Sinclair

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…

— Denis Diderot

I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school,…

— Patricia Mauceri

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation…

— Ron Suskind

In the midst of the East Asian crisis, there were choices. One choice would have been to encourage countries to implement a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going…

— Paul Weller

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

— Robert Higgs

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

— Ashraf Ghani

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it,…

— Charles de Gaulle

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

— Claire Danes

New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.

— John Paulson

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

— Barbara Tuchman

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

— William C. Brown

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at…

— Joe Slovo

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

— Charles Duhigg

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 -…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I do not hear any plan for sheltering Canadians from the next global financial crisis, which is coming for all of us…

— Neil Macdonald

Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

— Barry Commoner

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

— Mark Dayton

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

— Lindsay Shookus

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the…

— Anne Enright