Donald Trump’s ineffective leadership gravely worsened the crisis that we are in and he is now taking advantage of it to subvert and destroy our right to vote and vote safely. Request a ballot early. Vote early. – Taylor Swift
The COVID-19 crisis really sums up the deep failures of his presidency. – Hillary Clinton On Donald Trump.
The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis – confident that we are better than our politics. – James Mattis Former Defense Secretary takes aim at Donald Trump over his response to George Floyd protests.
Doing what feels good, what’s convenient, what’s easy – that’s how little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grown-ups, including some with fancy titles and important jobs, still think that way – which is why things are so screwed up. – Barack Obama Criticising Donald Trump’s handling of coronavirus crisis
It’s a false choice to make, saying that you either open the economy or everything goes to hell. You cannot make this economy grow until you deal with the virus. They’re one and the same. You can’t deal with the economic crisis until you deal with the health care crisis. – Joe Biden Arguing that economy could only rebound once public health emergency was brought under control.
This is the worst public health crisis for a generation. I must level with the public: More families are going to lose loved ones before their time. – Boris Johnson British Prime Minister’s forecast of more deaths to come from Covid-19.
This crisis has engulfed the entire human race. For the past two months, we have been watching with concern the news about coronavirus spreading across the world. – Narendra Modi Indian Prime Minister.
The disease represents a threat to everybody in the world and…an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past. This is the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War. – Antonio Guterres UN Secretary-General on Covid-19 pandemic.
This is the most difficult crisis that the country has faced since World War II. – Giuseppe Conte Italian Prime Minister on coronavirus pandemic.
This is an emergency. This is an existential crisis and we must do everything we can to stop it. – Greta Thunberg
We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis…if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then…we should change the system itself. – Greta Thunberg
The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. – Herman Kahn
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. – Huston Smith
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. – Godfried Danneels
I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find – very often with the exception of CNN – that I’m not watching news at all. You think, ‘Well, God… there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!’ – Howard Stringer
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. – George Montgomery
It’s difficult when you’re an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn’t be around very long if you did that. – Henry Bonilla
You can’t have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis. – Herb Kelleher
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe. – Joe Slovo
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. – Iris Chang
I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that. – Janet Yellen
I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in ’57. I graduated in ’97. – Jeff Nichols
I’m quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There’s always a crisis that needs your urgent attention. – Jeremy Corbyn
I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself. – Irrfan Khan
I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you’re not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else. – Jeremy Corbyn
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis. – Jeff Sessions
If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right’s deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut. – John Podhoretz