Quotes About Crisis

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape the fact that climate change is not happening in some far-off, distant future.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.

It's hard to punish and save the banks at the same time.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance.

The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.

Running my fund in 2008 felt a little like being Noah. Noah builds his ark, and he puts his family on the ark, and off they go. So he and his family are safe, and everybody else is dying.

Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?

Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from?

This is America, but the way that the people of Flint are being treated with this water crisis is like a third-world country.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Our economy is failing far too many - forcing parents to use foodbanks to feed their children, demonising migrants and condemning all of us to climate breakdown.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I am extremely active in the foster care crisis in this country. Everything that I do is pretty much with the end goal of trying to make a difference in the lives of the children in foster care.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.