“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
“From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.” UseGovernmentOpportunityPresidentEconomicCrisisDemocratExcuseShrinksPackagesStimulusObamacareDetroitEconomic CrisisTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Jeb Hensarling
“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.” SometimesEnoughWantedAnswersFailingCrisisFaultsPainfulExcuseTongueEmbarrassmentPromptsPlausiblePretextLapsesFraming Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.” ShouldReasonOpportunityEnergyCrisisFundamentalsEnvironmentalExcuseExtremistGreat OpportunityEnergy Crisis Author:Russell E. Train
“This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...” ShouldSelfMomentsDoubtCrisisExcuseSelf-doubtQuails Author:Boris Johnson
“The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.” ShouldGrowthEconomicTaxesRaisesCrisisFinancialExcuseEconomic GrowthFinancial CrisisEconomic Crisis Book:Decision Points Source: Decision Points
“The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it” PoliticsCrisisFundamentalsExcuseOccasionsPostponing Book:Speeches Source: Speeches
“Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.” GovernmentUsedLibertyCrisisExcuseLibertarianThriveExpansionIncompetence Author:Jim Babka
“A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our second response must then be to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding and act accordingly. We are all responsible to know what can be known of God's will for nature, and we are then responsible to act on that knowledge.” KnowsFirstsLongMadeChristianUnderstandingViewsResponsibilityKnownTeachCasesCreationBearsMajorsResponsibleCrisisFaultsResponseExcuseGods WillRepentanceBiblicalEcologicalNo ExcusesEcological Crisis Author:James W. Sire