Quotes About Crisis

If we did not have Obamacare, we could've addressed the healthcare crisis in a comprehensive but segmented fashion - meaning that we could have promoted a health savings plan. We could've pushed for tort reform, which added so much more cost to healthcare.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

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

President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

Instead of people thinking, 'Oh God, look at this terrible refugee crisis; we must do our bit', there's a lot of people thinking, 'How can we get out of doing our bit and find reasons not to provide sanctuary for these people?'

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

Luckily, Europe, step by step, recognised that these mass refugee movements to Europe cannot work.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.