Crisis Quotations | Page 6

We want very much to end the crisis in the Gulf through diplomatic means,

We are engaged in a massive effort under difficult circumstances to save lives and stabilize this crisis so that we may begin to restore our communities. This is job one.

The president often says it is the responsibility of elected officials here in Washington to face today's challenges and not to pass them on to future generations. Yet it is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health-care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

The president is going to receive more of a disaster than a crisis.

Finance is the core of a modern economy, ... We must be able to forestall any crisis in the financial sector.

Facing record deficits after 9/11 and the worst fiscal crisis in a generation, Mayor Bloomberg balanced the budget without cutting vital services,

But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.

The governor is concerned with a crisis of affordability. He will target economic development efforts that are focused on building generations of opportunity.

The governor believes the child welfare system is in a state of crisis and that we should move quickly to address any and all impediments to reform.

The government is now in a crisis management mode. So, they may provide us some kind of positive surprise as regards the bad loan issue.

We've been owed this money for a while now, but because of the fiscal crisis at the time, it was never granted to us.

We seem to be putting it off and putting it off. I thought there was an understanding this past week discussing the landfill that we have a crisis on this island.

We see it in moments of crisis and moments of trauma. What they try to do is link themselves to a legitimate event that people respond to emotionally and intellectually, because otherwise you would never log on to them.

Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unprecedented magnitude -- all he ever wanted was to be president. But of all the presidents I have known, he was the most thoughtful.

While we all may read more about the impact of public hospital closures on inner cities, the fact is we are also seeing the potential for an impending access crisis in suburbs with high-poverty populations. These high-poverty suburbs exist disproportionately in California, Texas, and other areas in the south.

While Wal-Mart's proposed changes to their health-care plan are certainly long overdue, and we certainly support expanding benefits to part-timers, the Wal-Mart health-care crisis infecting America cannot be solved by publicity stunts.

While the rate decrease is good news for customers, we are still in the middle of a national crisis and a long way from being back to normal.

You can't discount the desire of folks to help out in a crisis.

We had architects and people from other universities come here to look at our building. This was built during the energy crisis of the '70s so it was good. Now we are spending millions of dollars to undo what we once won awards for.

We've had these ups and downs in terms of psychology. Greenspan saw that the global crisis was going to slow U.S. growth.

WOZA was started to give Zimbabwean women a voice and platform with which to exercise their rights. At this time in Zimbabwe, where things are very tough economically, socially, politically we felt that women were bearing the brunt of that crisis and should have the loudest voice in shouting out and holding the political leaders accountable for what they've unleashed.

We all know that there is a crisis in the country and we are all determined to end it. I am optimistic about the issue of the presidency and God willing we will find a new president for our beloved country Lebanon.

There is a lot of uncertainty. It's a real searching out process right now. This crisis may prove to create a buying opportunity.

There is not a national energy crisis, there is a tight reserve margin which we are addressing.

We will be in a real tight spot, but there is no national energy crisis.

We have a lot of work ahead of us, ... We still need the Voting Rights Act to be reauthorized, protect Social Security for our families, address the health care crisis disproportionately impacting Latino families, and make sure every student has access to a higher education. We need to make sure that Latinos are brought to the table, and not simply asked for their support or ignored on issues facing our country.

We have a crisis right now. We're out of bed space in the jail. Right now we're having to house a lot of the inmates out of county and that gets to be expensive.

We have a crisis right now. Business people right now are saying we have a skill shortage and not enough scientists and mathematicians. If you don't send boys to college, you're never going to get more scientists.

We have a crisis on our hands today. We need to get these kids housed as quickly as possible.

We have a crisis of poor nutrition and physical inactivity in the U.S. and it's time we dealt with it.

We have a crisis in poor nutrition and physical activity in this country. It's simple math: we are eating more and exercising less. And it's time we deal with it in a much more systematic and realistic way.

We have a crisis in Las Vegas that is worse than anywhere else in the country.

This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time.

What's been important about the last couple of sessions in March is that there has been no major crisis, which is a change. It is beginning to look like a legal process.

What precipitated the S&L crisis (is that) depositors had the right to go into the S&L and demand their deposits back today. The (agency's) deficit would be paid out decades into the future. A retiree can't go to the (agency) and say, 'Give me my money today in a lump sum,'

We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis in half a century. Direct aid to cash-strapped states is perhaps the most direct way to immediately jump-start an ailing economy.

Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.

To get past this crisis, we need a new mechanism in a new place that brings everybody around the table.

You have to have the world start doing better (before commodities prices correct), and the Asian crisis is starting to look a lot like what Latin America went through in the 1980s. It took them almost a decade to get their problems fixed.

Through this program we aspire to give youth a comprehensive picture of the magnitude of this crisis and to provide a forum in which this disease can be discussed frankly, openly and honestly, ... We hope this forms a basis of a pro-active youth response to the crisis.

We've been teetering toward a crisis for a long time now.

When a government starts losing the trust of the people in the heat of a crisis, anything can go wrong. And this is what happened in Madrid.

We will never go. We have spent six of the toughest and hardest months of our lives here under the open sky, chilling winter and snow. Now the crisis is over, why should we leave?

We could dance around the topic of how we were getting coverage of the latest crisis involving Canadians in Indonesia while seeming to concentrate on heads and tails,

We conveyed to the president the urgent need for the United States to actively insert itself in the crisis and for the president to personally become engaged in what may become a human catastrophe in our own hemisphere,

We see a substantial risk of a financial crisis as an integral part of an Icelandic 2006-2007 recession. The funding squeeze of the banks will probably force them to reduce lending to domestic players, and force a sell off of external assets.

We know that if we don't find an answer then we will be into a major crisis in this province, one that we don't need,

You have to realize how fatalistic the people have become, ... The effect is cumulative. It's another crisis in the daily lives of Iraqis that will add to the malaise happening in the country.

You either believe there is a budget crisis or don't believe there is budget crisis.

This situation is critical - not a crisis - and there is no imminent threat.

This situation calls for the company's going into crisis mode, adopting a degree of urgency that recognizes if things don't break right, the unthinkable could happen, that time is of the essence.

To talk about a crisis is not right.

This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of the debt crisis and moratorium of 1987 followed by the restructuring of the mid 1990s; signaling the beginning of new stage that could eventually lead the credit to investment grade status within a few years.

This one is more dangerous than the 1996 missile crisis,

This oil-induced crisis from Katrina is going to be good for housing. Mortgage rates are headed lower, and that's going to support the housing market. It will help with refinancing activity and construction.

This oil-induced crisis from Katrina is going to be good for housing, ... Mortgage rates are headed lower, and that's going to support the housing market. It will help with refinancing activity and construction.

This nightmare has gone on long enough. We once again call upon President Bush to make good on his promises to the people of the Gulf. This is a national crisis and requires strong national leadership to assure that all displaced people are safely re-housed as soon as possible. They should not have to endure more trauma - most especially at the hands of their federal government.

We should do nothing that would weaken NATO. We firmly believe that a stronger European contribution to crisis management can actually strengthen NATO. There is no difference between us on that,

we are anticipating that enough good and generous people will help us, just as the response has been during this latest crisis to help the pets of the Gulf Coast. We are an all volunteer organization. The Directors work full time and receive no salary, but rather donate their own resources to further the Mission. Every penny donated or earned through the sale of merchandise is utilized entirely for the benefit of the animals. All office, vehicle and routine expenses are met by the directors.

Bob Rubin did not feel he could leave Washington while the global crisis was raging on. And the fact that he's leaving now shows us that he believes the crisis is well under control.

even prior to Katrina our nation was feeling the squeeze of record high energy process. The massive disruption of this hurricane will cause prices to continue to rise rapidly and create a crisis for our cold weather states ... $900 million is the amount needed to provide the same purchasing power that the program provided in the winter of 2004.

Either we head into a more serious crisis, which will hit economic growth, or we abandon reform for a year. In both cases it is a failure for France.

Black poverty has persisted and become intractable but unless we have some crisis like this, we basically forget about these people -- out of sight, out of mind.

Every level of accountability has failed. It's really in crisis.

At the end of the day people realized this crisis isn't over and that the Fed has to ease.

At the moment, it seems that a there is a huge wave of money coming in from overseas, and investors who shunned the region for quite a while --since the Asian crisis -- are piling back in.

At the time, it was deemed probably the worst crisis to hit a college campus in modern times. There had been murders and shootings on campuses before, but in most of those cases the perpetrators were immediately known. This was a situation where five bodies were found over a three-day period . . . and Danny Rolling was not charged for almost a year.

At the end of the day, it's a way of taxing large corporations. Small businesses simply couldn't handle that type mandate, but perhaps it is does make more sense for large corporations. There's no easy solution to the nation's health care crisis and everyone is going to have to give some to craft a win-win outcome.

Communism in our time can no more be considered apart from the crisis clan a fever can be acted upon apart from an infected body.

Crisis management has been elevated to a very fine skill under his tutelage.

Energy prices are the reason for this. The crisis in the Middle East is obviously going to keep the price of energy at a strong level and that means this market is going to now be fearful of inflation exploding. We could be in for a further bumpy ride.

During his three-day working visit to Iran, Lu will discuss with Iran's foreign ministry officials ways to prevent the nuclear crisis from escalating, given the current developments.

During every crisis that we've had, the president has taken power that isn't warranted by the Constitution. This is another example of it.

Duke has already done more ... than any other institution facing a crisis in the 21st century.

Each year, over 900 young women in East Texas find themselves in a desperate situation and faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Every year East Texas shows its overwhelming support for area crisis pregnancy centers by participating in the annual KSWP/KAVX World's Largest Baby Shower.

Each year between two and five million people worldwide die from lack of safe water and sanitation. Given this dire situation, the creation of a US-based advocacy group is long overdue, ... We know what the problem is and we have the knowledge and resources to save millions of lives - we simply need to extend water to those without it. Water Advocates and other US nonprofits can make enormous strides in helping solve this worldwide crisis by informing the public and ensuring that funding is available for more projects.

Earlier this year our Crisis Management Team designed a road show that covered all of our operations sites, focusing on informing staff of the disease and training them on our new flu information module.

Even before the negative impact of the (youth employment measure) crisis on the economy, the evolution of industrial production in February already gives a picture of the current state of the French economy - in free fall.

During the past week, we have all anguished over the suffering that Hurricane Katrina has brought on in the Gulf Coast, and particularly New Orleans. There are countless thousands of families who have lost everything as a result of this natural disaster. In an unprecedented crisis like this, it is more important than ever that relief agencies, like the Red Cross, have the resources they need to undertake this massive effort.

Fear, hype and misinformation over mold in 2001 and 2002 created an insurance crisis in Texas that we're still paying for today. Our court system was flooded by questionable lawsuits driven by personal injury lawyers who preyed on people's health fears, despite the lack of any scientific evidence.

The response to the housing crisis has been incoherent and fiscally wasteful.

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

There's a general sense of unease among presidents and chancellors. While we're not in crisis, we're engaged in an unsustainable rate of growth in expenditures and revenues. It's not possible for universities to put unallocated money into athletics. That's what people have been doing in recent years.

There's a general sense of unease among presidents and chancellors, ... While we're not in crisis, we're engaged in an unsustainable rate of growth in expenditures and revenues. It's not possible for universities to put unallocated money into athletics. That's what people have been doing in recent years.

There's a crisis in leadership. There's a sense that things are not only not getting better, but that things are getting worse. And that's a management issue.

There's a crisis. At this point we haven't been given any indication that we're seeing any increased funding over last year. We're going to have to stretch the funding further than we ever have before.

The resignation of Gloria is the solution to the crisis, not emergency powers to the usurper of the presidency,

There's general nervousness that this is a crisis that could start to spread globally and, generally, markets are overvalued in my opinion, and so markets are beginning to cut back accordingly,

There's no question we've got a very serious budget crisis facing California. We've got the nation's worst credit rating.

There's no end in sight as the Asian crisis will go on for years and this is having a major effect, ... It will trim earnings probably more substantially than many economists expected.

There's obviously a blip here due to the crisis atmosphere, and once things settle down, things may go back to normal,

The town of Williamston is in a severe financial crisis bordering on collapse. In summary, if we do not make changes shortly, we will not be able to make payroll.

I started at DC with Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. and I've never stopped having fun, ... I'm working with the best people in the business -- my fellow writers, artists and editors. And with Infinite Crisis just about here (finally!) and Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Greg Rucka and Keith Giffen on this insane jam series known as 52, I'm really excited for what tomorrow brings. Thanks to everyone, the readers and the retailers, for their support. My family and I appreciate it more than words could ever say. I would also like to take this opportunity to ask if anyone can help with the Red Cross's efforts throughout the South, and my wife's home city of New Orleans in particular, please go to www.redcross.org and give what you can. Thank you so much.

Is it unfair to the people who have been on the waiting list for years? Probably. But it's the reality of dealing with a crisis situation,

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

It would be historical to have a Southern state endorse universal health care and medicine for all. This is a life-and-death crisis for many people.

It would give residents in crisis a place to go. And it would take pressure off the crisis unit at the Charlotte County Mental Health Center.

It would be wrong for any Legislature to overturn the will of the voters, ... It would be a dangerous precedent ... It would be a constitutional crisis ... To overthrow the will of the people would be such a huge political mistake and such a huge moral mistake.

the worst crisis this process has been in,