Crisis Quotes - Page 34

• The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

  Juan Enriquez

  New York, Artist, Doctors

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Reality, America, East

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• [Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over the race issue. He did this early on in his administration, when the country was polarized. That was unprecedented.

  Frank Luntz

  Country, Race, Issues

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• I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category. And we have derivatives like credit default swaps which are in this category, and we have derivatives like volatilities that are actually an asset class that we can invest in which are now - would out perform if we have another financial crisis.

  Robert F. Engle

  Mean, Class, Gold

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in Egypt, Iraq or Tunisia are not really representing Islam and Muslim people. Nowadays, political Islam is going through a crisis, however this crisis is necessary, for it will lead to a changing way of thinking. In order to make it out of this dead-end, reviewing political Islam becomes mandatory.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.

  Cass Sunstein

  Song, Rain, Believe

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

  Arianna Huffington

  Important, Journalism, Given

  "Announcing the Launch of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2009.

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• The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

  Arianna Huffington

  Party, Ideas, Pitching

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• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.

  Alastair Campbell

  Government, People, Gone

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.

  Chris Hayes

  Europe, Presidential, Dying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also putting his foot right into the whole Israel-Palestine crisis. Sometimes into places where people are going, "Why are you doing that?" .

  David Mandel

  Country, Feet, Israel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.

  Andre Vltchek

  Refugee Crisis, West, Victim

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.

  Michael Hudson

  People, House, Balance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, War

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

  David Cameron

  Different, Body, Unions

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

  Joni Ernst

  Believe, Responsibility, Fighting

  Source: hotair.com

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• Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime ministership since the Suez Crisis, possibly since the Second World War.

  Jeremy Hunt

  War, Thinking, Decision

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• This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

  Boris Johnson

  Self, Doubt, Moments

  "Boris Johnson is NOT running to be the next British prime minister — here are the candidates still in the running" by Adam Payne, uk.businessinsider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Refugee Crisis, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Government, Europe, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes we don't face what's going on in our world, be it a water crisis or an earth crisis, because it's a little too scary and painful. Just like we don't want to face the parts of ourselves that are a little too uncomfortable or painful. We've gotta face both and love both so that we can heal both.

  Alysia Reiner

  Our World, Water, Scary

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• I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers.

  Andy Murray

  Firsts, Investment, Share

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Strangely enough, I find myself more centered in chaos than in calm, and again I'm not sure whether that's a strength or says something weird about me, but I love a crisis. I'm normally very, very organized in the middle of chaos, and then when I have nothing to focus on, extremely disorganized, and I tend to waste a lot of time.

  Grant Bowler

  Focus, Waste, Calm

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Justice, Age

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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