The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe’s, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since. – Roger Altman
Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention. – Ron Lewis
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? – Rahm Emanuel
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn’t stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right. – Paul Wellstone
It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint. – Ron Johnson
President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not. – Richard Neal
As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu’s perspective on the changes and volatility in the region. – Rob Portman
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt. – Rachel Cusk
Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick… more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise. – Rodrigo Rato
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation’s governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters. – Russel Honore
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. – Paul Sarbanes
I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there’s only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself. – Rudy Giuliani
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. – Robert Kiyosaki
We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis. – Roland Martin
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. – Paul Sarbanes
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. – Ron Fournier
There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance. – Reuven Rivlin
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis. – Richard M. Daley
I wouldn’t go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It’s just a question of when and I’d rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing. – Rob Lowe
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration. – Russell Baker
Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: ‘Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?’ That’s, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale. – Osman Rashid
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis – often despite the advice they were getting. – Robert Dallek
The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy – not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy. – Roger Altman
