Quotes About Crisis

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

The impacts of extreme weather are already creating chaos.

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis and even a collapse if the U.K. left.

I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.

In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and better protocols from hospitals.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

I agree with the overwhelming majority of scientists who recognize that climate change is real, and it's essential that our country honors its commitment to work with the rest of the world to cut carbon pollution and address this crisis together.

The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.