Crisis Quotes - Page 37

• The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

  Tim Jackson

  Country, Growth, Quality

  Tim Jackson (2016). “Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow”, p.21, Taylor & Francis

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

  Bob Tyrrell

  White, House, Want

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• By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a margin, they believe that Hillary Clinton would be better in a crisis and less of a decisive margin she cares about people like them.

  Mark Shields

  Believe, People, Usual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Climate, World, Climate Change

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Followership

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hillary Clinton, like Bill [Clinton], you know, they're not the solution to the crisis.

  Jill Stein

  Bills, Clinton, Knows

  Source: www.politico.com

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• To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what kind of a world we will be but whether we will have a world or not, going forward. And the climate crisis, for one thing, you know, Hillary [Clinton] has not repudiated fracking by any means, nor fossil fuels.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Views, Fossils

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in order to get covered as a candidate in this election. It's pretty outrageous. And our media could solve that in a heartbeat if they actually opened it up, you know, but they don't. So I think that's more commentary on the crisis in our media.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Media, Order

  Source: www.politico.com

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• This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Ideas, Russia

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, America, Democracy

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Spiritual, Couple, Real

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I think that there's an important point to make if you're running for president, which is that you tell the American people how you would handle a crisis. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying here's what I would do in terms of air power, in terms of dealing with the enemy. Donald Trump never says a word. He just says, "I've got a secret plan." He impugns the president .

  Eric Bolling

  Running, Thinking, Air

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Lincoln basically pulled in all the people who had been running against him into his Cabinet because, whatever personal feelings there were, the issue was 'How can we get this country through this time of crisis?' 

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Issues

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• [Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.

  John McCain

  Past, Years, Iraq

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• [Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got to stop saying this, because I was with him. I was with him and he said that, it was like, I'm out. I'm out. It's too crazy.

  John McCain

  Crazy, Thinking, Refugee Crisis

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Hands, Jail

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Eye, Eight

  Source: time.com

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• In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Facts, Trump

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• [Hillary Clinton'] transition director being Ken Salazar, I think, indicates that she will continue to be a friend to fracking. It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Climate, Directors

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

  Jill Stein

  Years, Insecurity, Climate

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to transition to clean energy, they didn't have any fuel to burn, and they also had to transition to a healthy food system, an organic system - their economy is crashing, this was not a planned transition. This was a crisis, but a crisis nonetheless, in which pollution went away. And it's very instructive to see what happened to their health.

  Jill Stein

  Choices, Healthy, Energy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Neoliberalism, arguably, sets the course for this kind for this kind of neo-extremism, this right-wing extremism that we are facing. The only way we solve that crisis, the rise of the right-wing extreme, is by truly progressive policies that address this crisis of economic security. That will not come from the lesser evil.

  Jill Stein

  Wings, Evil, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That 10 cents on the dollar that the African American family used to have crashed down to 5 cents on the dollar, given the focus of predatory lending on the African American community and the degree to which they were really devastated by the foreclosure crisis. So yeah, I think there is a lot of disappointment out there.

  Jill Stein

  Disappointment, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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