Crisis Quotations | Page 8

Just passing is not acceptable in our household. We have high expectations and use those tools to motivate, guide, and sometimes when a crisis hits, there have to be things taken away. We don't let it slide, ... It should not be the parent's option, it should not be the student's option to make the decision to go to the athletic field. They must have fulfilled their obligation in the classrooms first.

I suspect that Wagoner is under a lot of pressure from the board to turn things around. To me it seems the company is in crisis mode.

Our crisis of today is Katrina, probably a couple of hundred billion, and I think you start by canceling every earmark, all 6,371 earmarks, special pork spending, in the newly-passed transportation bill. It's only $24 billion, lunch money, but it's a rather ample lunch.

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.

I can keep my head together in a crisis.

Center of the Storm: Practicing Principled Leadership in a Time of Crisis.

But when I was elected, there's such a financial crisis out of my expectation, so I am now, you know, suffering from such difficult conditions.

But this isn't just about Kenya. This crisis is devastating the whole of the Horn of Africa. Millions of people are still suffering.

But the health crisis is bigger than one group of workers. Problems exist in many professional groups and the Government needs to fix these problems now.