“Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.” WayImportantPoliticalInterestPolicyTheoryPoliticianOffersConflictApproachHarderCrisisDemocraticDiscussionFrankParadesPolitical SystemsVigorNational Interests Author:David B. Rivkin
“I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.” ThinkingInterestCommunityResponsibilityCrisisHumanitarianAddressesAggressionInstabilityDisplacementGlobal Community Author:Angelina Jolie
“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?” IfsMadeWould BeRunningTodayInterestCompanySecurityExampleCrisisFinancialCeoLoanPercentagesMortgageAlignmentFinancial CrisisStanleyAmerican BusinessCitibank Author:Aubrey McClendon
“Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.” ThinkingBookReasonInterestNovelPaintingCrisisDareCentreClimax Author:Mike Svob
“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.” MenPersonsImportantCountryStatesLightPastInterestAbilityUnitedCareersUnited StatesDignityCrisisChosenPostsMinistersConsiderationSentimentsEquityAmbassadorsRight PersonDiscardedHolland Author:Sadao Araki
“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
“Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change.” ThinkingLongRunningInterestRealizingRiskManagementCrisisLong RunsIncentivesPackagesCompensationRisk Management Author:Mervyn King
“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
“This is real. This is not a phase. This is not a temper tantrum. The average American who I believe makes this country work thinks the Republican Party is actually oriented against its interests and does not understand or believe the crisis they think the country's in.” ThinkingBelieveDoeRealCountryI BelieveInterestPartyRepublicanCrisisAverageTemperPhasesRepublican PartyTantrumsTemper Tantrums Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most young people do... the credit card companies love sending you credit cards so you exceed your limit and they can charge you interest. And this is a girl who overcomes her problems and figures a way out of her financial crisis, and hopefully the world will do the same thing.” PeopleWorldWayProblemYoungGirlInterestMistakeCompanyJourneyFiguresLimitsOvercomingCrisisFinancialCreditTalesCardsRedemptionHopefullyMaking MistakesExceedCredit CardFinancial Crisis Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.” PeopleWellsMadeInterestPaySawsStreetsNew YorkWallCallingEssentialsCrisisFinancialFinanceSenatorsCeoClosingMortgageLoopholesPrincipledFinancial SystemMain StreetMortgage Crisis Author:Hillary Clinton
“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
“The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.” WayNeedsRealCountryTogetherAmericaInterestSpecialStrongerCrisisGenuineBest WayOur CountryAgendasWorking TogetherArtificialSpecial InterestsBipartisanship Author:John F. Kerry
“The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of credit, that is, interest rates. It also plays a key role in supervising banks and historically has seemed to take it easy on the banks when it shouldn't have, such as in the lead up to the financial crisis.” PlayBigsEasyInterestRolesEconomyKeysCostCrisisImpactRateFinancialCreditFedsInterest RateFinancial CrisisTake It EasyBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and not in the interests of the people. After the financial crisis, Americans have perceived that the banks have been bailed out, but a significant proportion of the population is still in serious economic trouble.” PeopleHas BeensStillsReasonInterestTroubleEconomicSeriousConcernedCrisisCriticsFinancialPopulationSignificantProportionFedsFinancial Crisis Author:Gerald Epstein
“In the midst of the East Asian crisis, there were choices. One choice would have been to encourage countries to implement a bankruptcy law that could have threatened the interests of the lenders. Workers' rights should be a central focus of development. But nowhere did issues of workers' rights, including the right to participate in the decisions which would affect their lives in so many ways, get raised.” CountryChoicesInterestDecisionFocusCrisisBankruptcy Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.” WorldNeedsSelfRealityInterestCommunityPowerfulGreaterLessonsMajorsCrisisDefinitionsConnectedBrandsMost PowerfulSelf InterestGreater GoodNikeGlobal Community Author:Simon Mainwaring
“The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.” HomeJobsValuesGrowthInterestEconomicEventsLowsCrisisRateDestroyedDeclineEconomic GrowthRecessionsInterest RateMany Homes Author:Ben Bernanke
“This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.” YearsCountryLastsNationsSocialPresidentInterestSecurityWallTenCrisisDollarsWaveDebtBillionsOur CountryBudgetsPresident ObamaLast YearSocial SecurityPaymentMedicareLoomingTidal WavesDebt Crisis Author:Paul Ryan
“On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.” WayRealSpiritualPoliticalUsedPassionLostSocialInterestPartyToo MuchAtheismConceptsCrisisWestAtheistPossessionEastSupremeDestroyedReformSpiritual LifeEntityRulingDeprivedRenaissanceSocial ReformDealingsIrresponsibilityPrecious Possessions Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.” KnowsLastsInterestEffortSeriousProtectResearchCrisisThreatResponseClimate ChangeDetailsSeekingArguingAwfulCertaintyUncomfortableGlobal WarmingAppropriateStatus QuoTimidityInsistenceVested InterestsCamouflage Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.” PeopleMenSelfCountryGovernmentNationsPresidentInterestLeadershipIntegrityCrisisHealDecentSteadyDevotedPresidencySelf InterestImpeccableTimes Of CrisisDecent ManPresident Ford Author:Mark Udall
“These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.” JobsUniverseInterestRiskMastersOrdinaryCrisisCurrentsPocketsFundSay AnythingLivelihoodTamedHedge Fund Author:Vince Cable
“Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.” MayMomentsInterestAttentionMediaProduceResearchGunCrisisShootingIntensityGun ControlShort Lived Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I've never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.” WorldHas BeensMatterDesireCoursesJesusInterestReligiousEventsBabyBirthSeasonsNo Matter WhatCrisisFoundationImpactForgottenCelebrateSignificanceWorld HistoryInspirational ChristmasPersonal DesireBaby Jesus Book:Christmas in Plains: Memories Source: Christmas in Plains: Memories