Crisis Quotes - Page 4

• While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

  Chaka Fattah

  Long, Challenges, Faces

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• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  Alcee Hastings

  Aunt, Organization, Leader

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• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  Vic Snyder

  School, Opportunity, Rocks

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• Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Believe, Government, Empowering

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• Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

  Shirley Booth

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Action, Problem

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Country, Iran, Situation

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy

  Zhu Rongji

  Pride, Opportunity, Growth

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• Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

  Godfried Danneels

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

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• This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Typical, Usual

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

  Mark Dayton

  Administration, Serious, Madness

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• The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Country, Religious, Outcomes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Party, Japan, Usa

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

  Alexander Haig

  Hostage Crisis, Tough, Carter

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• Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

  George Crumb

  Years, Two, Musical

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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  Jean O'Leary

  Different, Hiv, Stories

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• President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

  Richard Neal

  President, Social, Danger

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• I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

  Star Jones

  Nice, Way, Crossroads

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Safety, Rothschild

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Drinking, Alcohol, Answers

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• As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

  Joe Slovo

  Country, Levels, Way

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• In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

  Frank Shorter

  Way

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• No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Medical Problems, Should Have

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