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“In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.”

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Book:Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You

Source: Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You

“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.”

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Author:Stephanie Coontz

“When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.”

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Author:David Boaz

“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.”

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Author:Luke Evans

“[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.”

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Author:Andrew Lam

“I never assign blame in a crisis. There is no benefit to doing so.”

Author:Steven Fink

“Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.”

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Author:Abdallah II

“Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.”

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Author:Lawrence Summers

“It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.”

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Author:David Brooks

“Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.”

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Book:Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.”

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Author:Richard Trumka