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Crisis Quotes
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
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"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
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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."
27
"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs."
17
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
13
"So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place."
12
"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another."
12
"Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security."
11
"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."
10
"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."
10
"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway."
9
"It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers."
9
"This isn't a drill, sir!""What d'you mean this isn't a drill?" It couldn't be! It wasn't possible. Things like that only happen in blockbuster sci-fi movies, not in real life!"It's not a drill, sir! This is the real thing! You'd better get up here right away sir! Sir? Sir!"But Commander Ortez was already on his way -- and he was running.When he eventually made his theatrical entrance on the bridge, nothing had happened yet. He wheezed."Well?" He appealed, ready for anything. After that, this had better not be a drill. Or else."
9
"Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure."
8
"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."
8
"The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security."
8
"If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it."
8
"Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline."
8
"There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens."
8
"Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same."
8
"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
8
"But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places."
8
"I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis."
7
"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do."
7
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
7
"I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis."
7
"While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis."
7
"President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not."
7
"I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis."
7
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
7
"We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy."
7
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
7
"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."
7
"In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis."
7
"When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help."
6
"The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy."
6
"However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes."
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