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Quotes About Crisis

We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
~ Kofi Annan
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
~ Wolfgang Schauble
The climate emergency is and remains the existential crisis of our times and we cannot forget about it because it has not forgotten about us.
~ Annamie Paul
Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
~ Paul Ryan
If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.
~ Virgil Goode
Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.
~ Hosni Mubarak
I believe Europe is burning financially. Europe's problems are not going to go away. They are so structural. Yet, our problems are right behind them. We cannot just look at Europe.
~ Richard Shelby
We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Ebola has changed everything in West Africa. We cannot sit back and say, 'Oh, those poor people.' We must think outside the box and find ways to help.
~ Kent Brantly
We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.
~ London Breed
We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.
~ Chris Grayling
When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.
~ Yoshihide Suga
Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it's not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don't. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
~ Greta Thunburg
We cannot have Derby County going the same way as Macclesfield and Bury. That would be a stain on English football. It simply cannot be allowed to happen.
~ Robbie Savage
We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
~ Francois Hollande
When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
~ Bernie Sanders
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.
~ Rob Portman
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
~ Barack Obama
Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.
~ John Hickenlooper
I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.
~ Corey Haim
I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
~ Florentijn Hofman
We are a plague on the Earth.
~ David Attenborough
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
~ Larry Kramer