“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.” YearsMayLongPresidentWonderBreakEconomyFourEconomicElectionCrisisTrackArguingCampaignsPresident ObamaFour YearsRight TrackEconomic CrisisSurrogatesAmerican Economy Author:Jon Meacham
“It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.” GivingDemocracyFashionIndiaElectionCrisisFarmersPacksPackages Author:Narendra Modi
“Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.” GovernmentElectionCrisisDemocraticVotingRemedyJustificationParticipationDemocratic Elections Author:Beth Simone Noveck
“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.” PeopleMindTwoStatesPoliticalDemocracyElectionCrisisCastsJournalismPropagandaCandidatesDevicesPollsBallotsAutocracyAcquiescence Book:The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism Source: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
“There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.” CommunityPerfectTheoryElectionCrisisChinaStormOlympicsExplosionsPerfect StormStorms Coming Author:Bonnie Blair
“The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.” MeanLittlesDemocracyModernHighestIndependentElectionCrisisPressesProfoundAvailableCommodityFree MarketJudiciaryFree PressFree ElectionsIndependent Judiciary Author:Arundhati Roy
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.” Has BeensStatesHomeFacesPoliticalLosesLeaderCareersTestsPressureElectionCrisisCriticalDecadesPollsMigrantsAngelaHome State Author:Rachel Martin
“There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.” IfsWayNeedsCountryAbleJobsUnitedStreetsCreationCollegeWallCitizensMajorsElectionCrisisWingsClimateClimate ChangeListsOur CountryCandidatesAddressesMinimumRight WingBillionaireMinimum WageCollege EducationJob CreationCitizens UnitedAffordability Author:Bernie Sanders
“To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what kind of a world we will be but whether we will have a world or not, going forward. And the climate crisis, for one thing, you know, Hillary [Clinton] has not repudiated fracking by any means, nor fossil fuels.” KnowsWorldLooksKindMeanViewsOne ThingElectionCrisisClintonClimateFuelFossilsFossil FuelFracking Author:Jill Stein
“Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in order to get covered as a candidate in this election. It's pretty outrageous. And our media could solve that in a heartbeat if they actually opened it up, you know, but they don't. So I think that's more commentary on the crisis in our media.” IfsThinkingKnowsOrderMediaTelevisionLet MeElectionCrisisSolveCandidatesCoveredHeartbeatOutrageousCommentaryAmerican Media Author:Jill Stein
“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
“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
“I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingOrderNextDifferencesStepsCasesToo MuchRiskWeekKeysTrumpQuietElectionCrisisFolksBe GoodWho We AreMaking A DifferenceRight WayUrgentStep UpSteps Forward Author:Reid Hoffman
“We have important things to talk to the Russians about, despite their meddling in our elections. I hope they're talking about a way to eventually end this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria, end that war. The Russians have more leverage than we do. I hope they're talking about the fact that, if Kim Jong-un's long-range missiles can reach Alaska one day, they can also reach Vladivostok.” ImportantWarOne DayElectionCrisisHumanitarianSyriaHorrificMeddling Author:Condoleezza Rice
“It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.” WantedClearEconomicElectionCrisisInaugurationEconomic Crisis Author:Russell Baker