Crisis Quotes

You've got to be both a rabbi and a priest ministering to the people, but also a chief executive who directs recovery and marshals resources. Everybody looks to the president at a moment of crisis, not to the Congress. And so you have to be that larger-than-life figure. - Kenneth Duberstein

You're talking to someone who has gone through the Mexico crisis, the Thai crisis, the Russia crisis, the Brazil crisis and the Turkey crisis. Politics has always been an investment consideration within emerging markets. - Francis Claro

You're excited with the steps they've taken and you're frustrated that some have taken so long. Now, we're facing a new crisis in Africa. It never ends for those people and it's one we've turned our backs on for a long, long time. - Steve Nash

You're constantly putting out fires, dealing with one crisis after another, so after a period of time, when inmate suicides are no longer a daily concern or a daily crisis, then a system will turn to something else that happens to be on the front burner. - Lindsay Hayes

Your presence symbolizes the hope of a resolution to this crisis: a happy resolution is possible. - Charles Konan Banny

Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in a crisis and need something. - Chuck Palahniuk

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. - Rahm Emanuel

You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pictures of starving babies. What we're seeing, emergency after emergency, is that the international community does not get mobilized before there is an actual crisis. - Marina Ottaway

You have written a new chapter in 1st Brigade history. It is a story of soldiers, men and women, who came together in a time of crisis to answer the country's call. - Col. David Elicerio