Crisis Quotations | Page 3

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them, ... Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Next week will be a very pivotal week. We are not in crisis right now, we are still progressing.

New laws cannot hide the fact that the constitution has been peremptorily put aside. There is no way out of this crisis but a return to constitutional and representative rule.

NATO will today be stepping up still further its response to this crisis,

Nobody wanted to use Prop. H money in a way that most voters didn't want it used. Given the crisis, we were given little choice.

No energy crisis exists now that equates in any way with those we faced in 1973 and 1979, ... World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful, and automobiles aren't waiting in line at service stations. Exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality.

Right from the transition, Fox had the point of view that he simply didn't want to run the risk of upending the apple cart. He had commitments to the private sector, and he was not able to separate that commitment - to avoid a crisis at the end of (his term) - from the idea of confronting the PRI.

People with means can often find themselves on a downward spiral. It can happen very quickly. Here you are someone who is healthy, working, with health insurance, and just one serious health crisis and you're homeless.

My suspicion is that women are paying more attention to their health and are working on it. Men tend to make light of health issues more and wait until it's too late, some crisis comes along. They have a heart attack. Their blood pressure goes up.

Ongoing protests are affecting investor sentiment negatively. Investors are now concerned whether the crisis will affect government economic policy.

only the peripheral winds of the Asian crisis.

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

One of the big problems we have is every time we have a crisis, we have to go knocking on doors. It could take anywhere from two to four months from the time we get the money to the actual handing over of the food because you have to buy it, transport it, and distribute it. There's a delay in that.

One of the issues that we are wrestling with in our eight counties is crisis services, and ensuring that crisis services are available. We don't have that in place yet for adults or for kids, but we're working to try to put it in place.

I would call upon my colleagues at the proper time to support this aviation legislation, not to say that it is perfect, not to say that some of this legislation that has risen out of this crisis is perfect, and we will have a chance to revisit and this is only the first of a wave of accountability,

If we did end up in a crisis where things were really tense, this decision about what is coming at you could be essential.

If we kick this down the street, the crisis five years from now will be irreversible.

I got interested in health care almost five or six years ago, as I started to age myself. It's mind-boggling, the crisis that we are under, personally and nationally.

If they did it, it would represent a very serious crisis,

If they keep managing the energy crisis well, there should be no major impact.

If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia.

I have been talking with Iraqi citizens, many of them do speak English, and they say they've got weeks, perhaps months of food stockpiled in their homes. So there is no crisis here, at least nothing on the proportion that some of the international aid agencies would have you believe,

I don't have any other concrete plans. When I got here seven years ago, it was with the idea of staying for three to five years. The agency was having financial troubles at the time. We were looking to build a new crisis center. Those were the two biggest challenges facing the organization, and I believe we have accomplished those goals.

I'd like to thank Governor Owens and the Colorado Legislature for recognizing the impact this energy cost crisis has had on many households, and for providing Energy Outreach and the LEAP program with the funding needed to help meet this extraordinary need.

I don't know why anybody aspires to the job. It is just a problem job, dealing with problems messy by nature, people at wit's end, crisis situations.

I don't believe that statement passes the smell test, nor do I believe it would be your position that we have no better mission for military pilots in a crisis of Katrina's magnitude than kennel duty,

I am honored that Congressman Ryan will be addressing students and interns about reform of Social Security and other issues. Social Security represents a crisis for young people because they don't have a choice, and Ryan's leadership has been strong.

I believe that the best way to resolve the crisis is to heed the advise of His Majesty the King, and that all sides should review the positions we have taken.

I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.

I am uncomfortable when any head of state that is tyrannical and predatory comes to a conference like this, and he (Mugabe) fits that category. He is causing the crisis in Zimbabwe.

I am sorry that the Palestinians are always creating a crisis when Secretary Albright visits the area.

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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.

Basically, he has to go back to the drawing board ... to have another go at it, ... It's not a crisis or a complete disaster. It's a mess and it's a humiliation.

China hopes all sides will deepen their discussions based on previously reached agreements, including to resolve the crisis peacefully through dialogue and reaching the final goal of a nuclear freed Korean Peninsula.

I have argued for quite a long time that we should define humanitarian assistance in a broad enough manner to allow for assistance and repairs to electricity and heating systems and water for people through the winter, ... Otherwise we will have another humanitarian crisis on our hands.

I hate to use the word crisis, but there is certainly potential for real supply tightness,

I feel we are not at a crisis yet as far as funding the building of the new high school. But we do need to find the land now.

I feel like the city has learned that churches provide a tremendous resource. In time of crisis, what we need is the churches stepping forward. ... I believe the city has learned there are resources in churches that they need to tap into in the future.

I feel like we're growing as a team. I feel like we've got guys who didn't panic, who didn't go into crisis mode. We just knew we had to clear a few things up and we'd get a victory this weekend, and we did it.

Fourteen months ago, oil seemed to be in a bull market ? then Asia collapsed, ... This is basically a gross domestic product crisis driven by Asia, so the real prospects are whether you think Asia by the year 2000 will start showing signs of recovery.

From our crisis centers, we have found there are about 20 fatalities. We don't know if foreigners are among them.

For Qualcomm this has the potential to be a bit of an identity crisis,

I don't think you have to be a specialist to see what his state of health is ... if during the crisis the captain is not on deck, that means he is seriously ill.

I entered at an interesting time, after the L.A. riots, when the field was in crisis. A lot of the movement was down with solidarity with other races, but the riots were a shock. The focus became interracial relations, and they wanted to know what I thought. It gave me a weird credibility in the field. A lot of us got published in academic journals right away.

For me, this started as a mid-life crisis - as kind of a dare.

For what it's worth historically, 9/11 was the news media's last great moment in terms of the public view. I'd be hesitant to say much more than that because we don't know how the public is reacting to this crisis -- whether there will be the same sense of unity and common cause. There was an immediate rally effect shortly after 9/11, and that rubbed off on the media.

If it wasn't GM in crisis mode and the whole feeding frenzy going on in the media, a small restatement like this wouldn't get any attention.

ignored Haiti the same way he's ignored most of the countries in this hemisphere. ... We should have been engaged over a long period of time, in a serious way, at least through diplomacy, not to allow this to get to a crisis situation where it now is.

If this were a national foreign policy crisis, we would be on the floor this week, ... We should be on the floor this week, talking about ideas that would begin to solve this problem.

If the crisis continues, it could create an image of instability and uncertainty in Thailand.

If the crisis continues for too long and the winter is tough, then we have our limits too.

If the Asian crisis deepens, that simply means that corporate profits are going to suffer.

He works himself into states of crisis and distress, worrying that people are going to know he is a fraud and that his career is over.

He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.

Had these kinds of requirements been in place before the current crisis began in 1997, the flows of capital might well have slowed at a much earlier stage, substantially reducing the severity of the crisis,

Had the airlines not had a crisis, I'm not sure we would have been here today debating pensions,

He has provided very important and valuable leadership on a range of issues from the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s to the challenge of the transition economies following the fall of the Berlin Wall to the emerging market challenges of recent years.

Help-In-Crisis asks the communities to support our agency by attending one or both of the concerts as we observe October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month,

we can get to issues that are certainly more in the form of a crisis than a program that has enough money to have it in the form it's in for the next 50 years.

Today local government is in a state of crisis. If we continue this way, South Africa will fail.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

There is no crisis at all between the European Union and Israel. If there was a crisis, we would not be here.

There is no food crisis even as we speak, ... What worries us is the fact the our crop has failed us because of the rain, of the drought, and we are not the only ones that are hit.

We're primed and prepared to grow. No one is saying the budget is what we'd like it to be, but we're not in a budget crisis anymore so the opportunity is there.

What is bad for business is this crisis. The root cause of this crisis happens to be the charges against the President.

We think a great crisis is coming for Europe. The last thing Britain should do is associate ourselves with the fastest shrinking part of the world economy.

We are facing here a crisis that is unprecedented.

We are facing a national crisis. We had a very serious situation before Katrina, ... It is very frightening for people to see the price of gas at the pump head to three dollars a gallon. It is very frightening for older people to wonder whether they will be able to heat their homes this winter.

We are facing a crisis of confidence that is eroding the public's trust in our markets, and poses a real threat to our economic health, ... The strain on the economy is deep and spreading.

We are facing a crisis in Malaysia Airlines.

You don't know who's good or bad until you get to that crisis point.

What we have now is a looming crisis.

What we don't have is water, a factor that will make or break a crisis situation,

Here was a reporter seeking to cover the crisis in Ethiopia thoroughly and fairly?and the government's response was to thwart his efforts so that the alarming events in Ethiopia can stay hidden from the rest of world. This is all the more worrying in the context of the current crackdown on local journalists, at least 17 of whom are in jail for their work.

He's has successfully ignited the Middle East. He's shooting everyone now. He doesn't really want to settle the current crisis.

Historically, the markets have responded very positively to crisis-like events. We saw it after 9/11, after their initial downdraft, the markets responded very strongly for the next month or two.

Historically, the markets have responded very positively to crisis-like events.

There is an urgent need for improved therapies for weight loss assistance in the United States. The country is currently facing an obesity epidemic. This health crisis can also be linked a variety of associated disorders, including skyrocketing diabetes rates and heightened heart and stroke risks. Clearly, by attacking the obesity issue, we may be able to prevent many other life-ending illnesses.

Under normal conditions, Somalia is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and these are not normal conditions. It is a humanitarian crisis - it is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and a protection crisis.

We must have these things lined up before a disaster happens, ... We're sorry if we offended people or made people not feel included. After Katrina hit, we were in a crisis mode. Because we were expecting to get potentially 1,000 evacuees, we had to work fast and work smart.

we must have an advance warning and crisis management system on urban violence that is as effective as the one against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

We must dig deep in our pockets to make sure Pakistan isn't destabilized by the humanitarian crisis that may be about to engulf the country,

Humanitarian responders need to have flexibility to respond to needs on the ground by the fastest and most cost-efficient means possible, be it in-kind or locally purchased food aid. Having cash contributions available for local or regional purchases could increase the speed and volume of food available to address a crisis and would enable us to feed many more people.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.

has an obligation to find a solution ... before the crisis worsens.

Guilt is driven, in part, by the lack of access to information, especially during a crisis. It's brought on by trying to get through the morass of needs and decisions and not knowing what supports and services are available. Often there hasn't been anyone there to tell us what we might need until we actually need it, so there's tremendous guilt in feeling we haven't done enough.

There are so many nominations to look through, but the crisis team stood out. We were really impressed with what they have done.

I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.

Kenyans feel that there is a crisis in Government. The party wants to find the truth. That is why an independent inquiry is best.

Knowing what you'll do if your home doesn't sell quickly should calm your nerves and let you concentrate on whatever crisis has befallen you.

Kailangan na natin ang katotohanan at maayos natin ang tinatawag nilang kaguluhang ito (We need the truth to come out for this crisis to be resolved),

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.

I think it represented people who came back to reality after the farm crisis and looked at it realistically and bid accordingly. We're moving into that feverish attitude now.

It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand.

I think it's bad. But, you look at where we went from when we had the gas crisis in the '70s; we went to smaller vehicles and conservation. And then we did a 180, and now we're back to everybody driving a big, four-wheel-drive truck that gets real low gas mileage.