Crisis Quotes - Page 39

• Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system.

  Kshama Sawant

  Pay, Tools, Bigs

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• We have two thousand nuclear weapons on the trigger alert right now and Hillary Clinton wants to start an air war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power, over Syria as the means of addressing ISIS and the crisis in Syria.

  Jill Stein

  War, Mean, Isis

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We have also seen an economic crisis that is very serious within Venezuela, we are seeing cutbacks, I believe even more are coming in terms of electricity. Government employees no longer work on Fridays, and that has not been enough.

  Marco Rubio

  Friday, Believe, Government

  Source: www.univision.com

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• I think crisis starts with the government of Puerto Rico. It has to take measures to solve the fiscal problems that it has, which are very serious. It's very basic: it's the same thing that is happening in Washington.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Government, Serious

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• [The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

  George W. Bush

  People, Economic, Accounts

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Years, Growing

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Years, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.

  John R. Allen

  Military, Illegal Things, Track

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

  Judy Woodruff

  Essentials, Administration, Economic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

  Warren Buffett

  Credit, Right Now

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Sri Lanka, Play, Training

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• Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

  Chris Cleave

  Fire, Waiting, Cartoon

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

  Rebecca Miller

  Character, Different, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Every president since George Washington has respected this clause in the Constitution. We want to avoid that Constitutional potential crisis. And the way to do it is for Donald Trump - it`s not about him.

  Chuck Todd

  President, Want, Way

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.

  Sarah Schulman

  Emotional, Law, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.

  Bill McKibben

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we'll dawdle.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate, Essentials, Needs

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

  Bill McKibben

  Keys, Climate, Moments

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

  Peter Buffett

  People, Kind, Behavior

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• [The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.

  Andrew Lam

  Times Of Crisis, Pressure, Climate

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we'll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

  Ai Weiwei

  Jobs, Government, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.

  Julian Assange

  Isis, Migrants, Tick

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

  Hillary Clinton

  Color, Law, Addresses

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.

  Rich Lowry

  Thinking, Target, Looks

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• That's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iran, Cooperation, Kind

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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