F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House and the Senate in 1935 when he won passage of...

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating...

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn’t have a lot of the crisis that we have in today’s society.

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.

I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I’ve observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to...

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

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

We’ve got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Maryland leaders took a historic step today in acknowledging the crisis of global warming and deciding to do something about it. While leaders in Washington say carbon reductions are impossible, the capital itself now borders...

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.

Could I speak to you for a moment, madam?’ said Nannie to Agnes.It was at moments of crisis like this that Mary chiefly envied her Aunt Agnes’s imperturbable disposition. Most mothers feel a hideous sinking...

I don’t think that it is impossible to carry out reform in France. The real crisis is a crisis of confidence.

The crisis over the current situation is a clear indication the river is dying.

Stigma’s power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label...

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye...

It’s bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody’s miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.

This totally ignores the real crisis that has been sustained and orchestrated by loyalists — violence on a daily basis.

This is not a government crisis, this is a crisis of certain political personalities,

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

The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it...

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

It is quite a big relief, showing that a solution to the Argentine crisis is close.

Majority of those who would always push you to spend all your money on material things, tend to always be the same ones who wouldn’t help you if you were to start experiencing some financial...

It’s not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to...

I think there is a sense of crisis.

In a normal time, I don’t think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

Even I don’t know myself… In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real...

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.

We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. […] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

By Saturday, I predict being in a crisis mode where I’ve got areas with no water. However we got here, guys, we’ve got to work together to get through this.

It doesn’t seem that the best time to start reform is when there’s a major political crisis, … In fact, it seems to me he was putting the cart before the horse, because you can’t...

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ”Living” is conquered at last.

One of the things we always teach spokespeople in a crisis is to demonstrate your own personal involvement. From a psychological perspective, it’s very powerful when people see it, whether in a jury box or...

All the conservation efforts in the world won’t be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way. I’m convinced that, when everything is wiped blank, it’s life ‘s way of...

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

SARS had an impact, but it didn’t lead to a crisis in the economy.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

I’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it’s going to take some time to work through it.

All efforts to achieve a negotiated political solution to the Kosovo crisis have failed and no alternative is open but to take military action,

The fact that we’re going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We’re actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries,...

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.

Clearly we must have a sense of urgency, responsibility and crisis, we cannot afford to be relaxed or careless.