Quotes About Crisis

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

Help me Cassius or I sink!

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.