Quotes About Crisis

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to sink us all, as was unnervingly demonstrated in 2008.

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

The civil war in Syria is complex and devastating.

I've said for a long time there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria. There has to be a diplomatic solution. ISIL cannot be part of it. Al-Qaeda cannot be part of it, and Assad cannot be part of it. We are dealing with issues that have been going on for centuries, and I'm not sure the administration fully appreciates that.

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

Even when you just hear the word 'Syria,' it packs a lot of political connotations.

The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.