Quotes About Crisis

The results have been devastating. Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and one billion people are mired in extreme poverty, living on less than $1 each per day.

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

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

The failure to endow Treasury and the Fed with the authority to deal with the insolvency of a nonbank financial institution was the single most important policy failure of the crisis.

In times of uncertainty or danger, when the net is cast, plan ahead or plan to think fast!

It's a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.

No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government's insolvency.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it.

Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008 crash is going to define us for a generation.

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.

When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got austerity.

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

No one saw the recession coming.

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.