“In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.” StatesFiguresLateDestructionCrisisMovedClintonInternalsDescriptionDocumentsRefugeeIsisTickLibyaMigrantsTockTick Tock Author:Julian Assange
“I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.” LawViolenceColorCrisisAddressesUrgentTransgenderEquality Under The Law Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.” ThinkingLooksRichEnvironmentPicksCrisisFinancialTargetGet RichTreasuryFinancial CrisisDealings Author:Rich Lowry
“That's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].” KindCrisisIranCooperationSuppliesWeaponry Author:Bashar al-Assad
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.” TwoDifferentCountryNormalCrisisIncludingRussiaRelatedDifferent ThingsAgreementIranCooperationOther CountriesArmamentTwo CountriesIncluding Others Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I don't have support. Not me ; all Syria. Every agreement is between every class and every sector in Syria ; government, people, trade, military, culture, everything ; it's like the cooperation between your country and any other country in the world. It's the same cooperation. It's not about me ; it's not support for the crisis.” PeopleWorldCountryGovernmentCultureClassSupportMilitaryCrisisTradeAgreementCooperationOther CountriesSyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesCrisisHorribleRefugee Author:Noam Chomsky
“We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.” WorldCountryCertainLeaderEconomicCrisisTradeInternationalRelatedRegionsSpokesAsiaFrameworkRestrictionSanctionsPacificWorld TradeInternational TradeEconomic Sanctions Author:Vladimir Putin
“However, crisis in world trade is, among other things, the result of using political tools in competition or simply for achieving political objectives with the help of economic restrictions.” WorldHelpingPoliticalResultsEconomicAchieveToolsCrisisTradeCompetitionObjectivesRestrictionWorld Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.” WorldNeedsNationsProgressCommitmentOrganizationCrisisResponseHumanitarianAround The WorldSyriaRefugeeSummitHumaneComprehensiveMigrantsAngela Author:Barack Obama
“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.” IfsKnowsLossCrisisOilScalesInnocenceNot SureSeventiesScandalHiroshimaWatergateLoss Of Innocence Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.” PeopleMindAbleGrowthEconomyWorstReturnCrisisInstitutionsFinancial1930sFinancial System Author:Barack Obama
“[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.” SaidDreamPoliticalLinesIssuesFocusFrontsCrimeMonthsKingsSpeechEuropeCrisisYeahUnionsAcceptedGreekIslandsTreatmentPrizePopeLutherEuropean UnionMigrantsOutspokenPolitical IssuesPrestigiousScolded Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“As we move forward, you cannot resolve the potential food crisis or shortages without science being part of the solution. Science has to be part of the solution but African governments - and these are decisions for governments, whether they embrace or do not embrace genetically modified food - and for the moment, most African companies do not accept genetically modified seeds.” MomentsGovernmentMovingDecisionCompanyAcceptingSolutionsCrisisEmbraceSeedsMoving ForwardResolveShortageGenetically ModifiedGenetically Modified Food Author:Kofi Annan
“Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its own terms.” NeedsLooksDifferentTermCrisisSpecificity Author:Kofi Annan
“Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.” CountryNumbersMilitaryCrisisSouthVietnamPigsInvasionMissilesCubanAdviserCuban Missile CrisisBay Of Pigs Author:Kitty Kelley
“There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.” PeopleNeedsLittlesHelpingJobsForceJusticeLateProgramTasksDirectCrisisImpactObviousAdministrationDepartmentReportsToo LateMortgage1930sTask ForcesMortgage Crisis Author:Jesse Jackson
“I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayUsedAbilityDemocracyCrisis Author:John F. Kerry
“Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.” YearsDifferentPresidentDealsEconomyPathEconomicEuropeCrisisEightChosenBarackEconomic CrisisDifferent PathsAmerican Economy Author:Alexis Tsipras
“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.” PeopleMadeProblemDealsEconomyEconomicConsequenceProgramCrisisGreekGreeceAusterityEconomic Crisis Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.” PeopleWorldWantCompassionEuropeCrisisSafetyResponseExtraordinarySeekingHumanitarianGreekIslandsAdmirationRefugeeMigrants Author:Barack Obama
“There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.” IfsDoeTodayCrisisImpactFinancialAsiaFinancial CrisisSoutheast Asia Author:Barack Obama
“I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.” IfsThinkingTwoHappensPresidentHoursImagineWeekFiguresFairsCrisisResponseCurrentsImagine ThatPigsDocumentariesTwo WeeksBay Of Pigs Author:Barack Obama
“You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s.” PeopleKnowsSometimesCasesMagicCrisisTricksOrganizedCaterpillarsMagic Tricks Author:Noam Chomsky
“For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal it - because they've succeeded in coming out of the crisis even stronger than they were before, and in a better position to lay the basis for the next crisis. But they don't care, because they'll get bailed out again. That's class consciousness with a vengeance.” BigsCareNextConsciousnessClassExamplePositionIndustryPagesBasesStrongerCrisisLaysDon't CareComing OutVengeanceEuphoricClass Consciousness Author:Noam Chomsky
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters
“I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.” NeedsRaceArmsCrisisAgreeNuclearRussiaResolveSyriaArms RaceNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms Race Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“I think it is a good thing that the United States will now be a party to the talks, to resolve a metastasizing crisis in Syria, which will destabilize Europe.” ThinkingStatesUnitedPartyUnited StatesEuropeCrisisGood ThingsResolveSyria Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.” PeopleWorldDoeRunningSchoolSocialChurchCrisisAround The WorldWelfarePriestsShelterHomelessNunSocial Welfare Author:Anna Quindlen
“You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.” EasyGrowthEconomyCostCrisisTradeBudgetsSyriaRefugeeRefugee CrisisTrade Offs Author:Bill Gates
“My family endured a big crisis after my father's business went bankrupt and we went from having a comfortable life to having virtually nothing. I saw from that moment how fragile and precarious life can be and you have to work very hard not just to survive but also to accomplish something in life and fulfill your dreams.” HardMomentsDreamBigsFatherSawsComfortableMy FamilyCrisisAccomplishYour DreamsThat MomentFragilePrecariousComfortable Life Author:Shakira
“I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.” ThinkingNeedsKindFeelingsPastStrongCrisisConvictionCampaignsVery StrongRooted Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsPastMetsCrisis Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet.” ShouldStatesInterestEffectsPlanetsBearsBiggerCrisisAgreeProtectionOilSymbolsGasExplorationProtectedThreateningHuntersAlaskaShippingOil And Gas Author:Sam Champion
“More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.” PeopleNeedsYearsAmericaNationsImaginationGreaterAwarenessConcernYears AgoCrisisRaisedMathFiftyLackingGreater GoodMath EducationEducation In AmericaSputnik Author:Katherine Paterson
“There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.” YearsProblemCrisisAttributesMissilesFranklin Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.” PeopleWayImportantUseFilmWaterRightsTroubleMovementRevolutionCrisisExcitedDebtDialogueCivil RightsExecutivesPlatformsDocumentariesNew OrleansCivil Rights MovementInvitingSoundtracksForumsDebt Crisis Author:Danny Glover
“It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.” WayYearsBelieveMeanDoeHardReasonCommunityJusticeCitiesGoneBloodFrontsTearsHard WorkCrisisTablesCastsEightReformDepartmentAddressesSweatSessionMayorsSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Al Sharpton
“This is a massive crisis for the press, and the degree now that the press revs up its scrutiny and its opposition to Donald Trump, as opposed to being neutral and fair to Donald Trump - they will compound their own problem, because Republicans don't trust them, independents largely don't trust them, and the press risks just being credible to only one party in America.” ProblemAmericaPartyRiskTrumpRepublicanDegreesFairsCrisisPressesOppositionMassiveJust BeingCompoundsDon't TrustScrutinyCredible Author:Ari Fleischer
“When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.” HardWholeGovernmentJobsLostResultsMillionsEconomyGrowingPeriodsCrisisTradeSouthFinancialChinaPartnersFactorsChineseAffectedSouth AfricaGlobal EconomyFinancial Crisis Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.” MeanMediaTelevisionCrisisAccidents Author:Paul Virilio
“We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!” RiskCrisisFinancialInstanceTradingAsianProgrammesFinancial Crisis Author:Paul Virilio
“For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.” WarCrisisFinancialAccidentsAsianFinancial CrisisPreludeKosovo Author:Paul Virilio
“Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.” CrisisDominanceGeopoliticsEmergence Author:Paul Virilio
“Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.” ChanceLeaderCasesDoubtInfluenceWillingLowsPressureRegardCrisisWestWesternFinancialRussiaEnormousFundAssetsIntervention Author:Garry Kasparov
“Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.” NeedsProblemGovernmentCommunityDealsCrisisSolvePartnersCompromiseTreatmentShelterHomelessFacilityFaith Based Author:Dirk Kempthorne
“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryHelpingLastsPoliticalUnitedExampleTrumpLateEuropeElectionCrisisInternationalKingdomsAround The WorldUncertaintyOperationsGreekDramaticFundRescueLast TimeMonetaryGreat DepressionUnited KingdomImf Author:Nicholas Bloom
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.” ProblemBigsRunningEnergyLeftStuffLevelsIssuesGrowingCenturyCrisisClimateClimate ChangeFloodGoing To WorkTwentieth CenturySuppliesBig ProblemsDroughtFood Supply Author:Margaret Atwood
“Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.” NextMagicHonestElectionCrisisBeing HonestBulletsHousingHousing Crisis Author:David Lammy