Quotes About Crisis

They also were unable to find an exact precedent in earlier financial crises that could serve as a model. During

commentary focused on the unfairness of bailing out Wall Street (a sentiment with which I agreed) rather than on what would have happened had we not acted.

policymakers had to weigh what might happen if Greece, after a default,

I also believe that critics overstate the contribution of moral hazard from the Bear intervention to the resurgence of the crisis in the fall.

The Bear Stearns rescue was followed by a period of relative calm, but we remained wary.

But we knew more shoes could drop.

Still, over time, optimism about resolving Europe's problems faded.

As doubts grew about the GSEs,

as had been the norm before the crisis.

But in a financial crisis, the words of government officials carry extraordinary weight.

European unemployment has been concentrated among the young,

But the situation at the GSEs was getting more dire by the day. "The

Ronald Reagan always said that freedom was one generation away from extinction. It looks like we've finally found that generation.

Abolishing private property means the unlimited right to redistribute wealth. "If the cause of poverty is the grossly unequal distribution of the world's wealth, then to end poverty, and with it the population crisis, we must redistribute that wealth, among nations and within them," says far-left Professor Barry Commoner.

I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.

ese señor Godoy es un alma de cántaro, y que no ha estudiado latín ni teología, pues todo su saber se reduce a tocar la guitarra y a conocer los veintidós modos de bailar la gavota. Parece que por su linda cara le han hecho, primer ministro. Así andan las cosas de España; luego, hambre y más hambre… todo tan caro… la fiebre amarilla asolando a Andalucía…

Three removes is as bad as a fire.

Nine men in ten are would-be suicides.

Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it.

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.

There was an existential moment - I don't know if I want to call it crisis - when I turned 50 and I felt 'this is interesting; how did this happen?' It affected me in a way I wasn't expecting. It made me pause for reflection.

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.