Crisis Quotes - Page 38

• More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Cash Flow, President

  Source: time.com

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• When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Wall, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Color, White

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• [Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

  Junot Diaz

  Numbers, Vocabulary, People

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge number of links to news articles, blog posts, scientific papers, web cams, video and photos. That archive came to the attention of Chatham House, and they then commissioned me to research the way in which the media responded to the ash cloud crisis. I think that's the only time that my degree and my career have fully intersected, and it really was a lovely moment!

  Suw Charman-Anderson

  Thinking, Volcanoes, Media

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• Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Refugee Crisis, Issues, Community

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Pete Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, President, Financial

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

  Luke Evans

  Roles, Looks, Blame

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

  Van Jones

  Country, Real, War

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm super grateful to everybody for this, what we're calling, "The Emergency Session of the Trumpologists."I think, led us all to want to talk with the people who spent the most time studying and thinking about Trump. What does he do in his paramount moment of crisis? Help us to make sense of the sort of tumult unfolding around us.

  Susan Glasser

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• "National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that - and then I watched an episode of 24. In my head, I was writing almost a parody of a 24-style president woken in the middle of the night with a crisis. It seemed more interesting to play it ultrastraight and to have the viewer's initial reaction be one of laughter and disbelief - and just have the whole thing become progressively more uncomfortable.

  Charlie Brooker

  Laughter, Writing, Night

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."

  Charlie Brooker

  War, Ideas, Creative

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.

  Dale Jamieson

  Heart, Environmental, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Refugee Crisis, America, Racism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.

  Adam Hochschild

  Men, Humanity, Germany

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

  Adam Hochschild

  Writing, Thinking, Refugee Crisis

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

  Emily Haines

  Identity, Canada, India

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Issues, Care

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Data, Might, World

  Source: www.salon.com

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• One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis).

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Rights, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The album [Blaxistential crisis] artwork is by a friend of mine who is a brilliant artist named Sara Pocock. We've been friends for a couple of years and she worked with me on the animation. I believe she's still working over at BuzzFeed.

  Baron Vaughn

  Couple, Believe, Artist

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Technology, Hands

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

  Kshama Sawant

  Today, Faces, Capitalism

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

  Kshama Sawant

  Environmental, Fuel, Corporations

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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