Quotes About Crisis

I am looking forward to partnering with the federal government, as well as the business leaders in our state, to address the serious challenges we face. From a budget crisis to crumbling infrastructure, we will get the job done right.

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.

Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

The skyrocketing costs of insulin are simply unaffordable for too many Maine families, and no one should be forced to choose between life-saving medications and essentials like groceries or clothes for their kids.

America doesn't have health insurance.

The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within the global economy.

Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.

I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.

Just like normal times, during this outbreak, there are still a lot of foolish people doing foolish things. But, these days, it is not just the foolish committing those foolish acts.

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