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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.
During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
The same qualities that we all have that are good can lead us to bad things or lead us into a crisis if we don't try to balance them.
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.
To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.
Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments.
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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.
One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
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.
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.
What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.
Long before the migrant crisis, Sweden had codified its form of humanitarianism into the country's domestic and foreign-policy framework.
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
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?
Real leadership is calm. Real leadership is steady in moments of crisis. It is not hysterical. It is not exploitive. It is not dishonest.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking.
You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.
My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.
We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.
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.
Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.
No bank should be too big or too complex to fail, but almost any bank is too big to liquidate quickly, particularly in the midst of a crisis.
I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.
A mimetic crisis is when people become undifferentiated. There are no more social classes, there are no more social differences, and so forth.
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.