Quotes About Crisis

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

The country is not in good condition.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.