Quotes About Crisis

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

For someone to say your son has a life-threatening illness only on the phone is hard to believe.

The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.

We have not argued in either Brazil or Argentina that the IMF should step in to protect the banks.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

We have to take immediate and durable action on climate change.

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.

We have to stop illegal immigration in order to ensure security in Europe.

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

The impacts of climate change are almost immeasurable.

The impacts of climate change are not going to get better; they are going to get worse.

When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.