“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.” GovernmentEconomySawsActivityWeakCrisisFinancialExcuseRestraintEntrepreneurialFinancial Crisis Author:Rob Portman
“If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.” IfsLooksProblemGovernmentRunningCasesActivityRedAreasCrisisOur SocietyCrucialThreadUnitingRed Thread Book:For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.” CertainEnemyViolenceActivityEssentialsDegreesMassCrisisStrikesScalesResistanceCombinationRevolutionaryCampsProvokingLarge Scale Author:Joe Slovo
“With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.” NextInterestCasesPeriodsActivityStressCrisisDevelopingExceptionMatureChaptersAdolescenceOrderlyNext Chapter Book:Coming of Age in Samoa Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.” WorldDoeFactsMovingNationsInterestGrowingActivityConcernCrisisProvisionUnworthyFrivolousOutdoor Activities Author:John F. Kennedy
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of this… There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-the Ganga- for short-term economic gains.” WorldWantNeedsLongNamesTermEconomicDyingPolicyDevelopmentActivityProtectSurvivalGainsRiversCrisisSacredDuesSymbolsLong TermSuicidalShort TermMonstrousDamsHimalayas Author:Sunderlal Bahuguna
“For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.” GovernmentActivityCrisisWingsVisibleEmbarrassmentWorldviewVindication Author:Amy Davidson