Quotes About Crisis

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Panic moves you to hoard essentials and prevent others from getting what they need.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

Funny money has always been the reason housing prices have risen too fast. First, it was liar loans and negative-amortizing mortgages, where the total amount you owed increased rather than decreased every month. We all know how that ended, with the global financial crisis of 2008.

We see the effects of climate change on food prices and in so many other ways.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.