“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.” KnowsValuesPayWatchesWorryStruggleShareStudentsMembersMy FriendsCrisisMedicalBarackBelovedTreatmentLoanMortgageFamily MembersStudent LoanBeloved Family Author:Ted Strickland
“I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.” BelieveTodayAbleSocialPaySecurityBenefitsCrisisDefinedAdministrationSocial SecuritySecurity Systems Author:James T. Walsh
“In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.” WarRunningWaitingHoursPayCuttingBearsCommitmentCrisisBurdenReplacedSenators Author:George W. Bush
“The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.” PeopleBelieveDifferentShowsPayRichStreetsWallTaxesConcernCrisisResponseRateFinancialIncomeInequalityContemptFinancial CrisisIncome InequalityDismissalCulpability Author:Robin Wells
“People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the science runs ahead of the politics. Bioethics can alert people to something coming down the road, but it doesn't mean policy and politicians are going to pay attention. They tend to respond when there's an immediate crisis. The job of the ethicist, in some ways, is to warn or be prophetic. You can yell loudly, but you can't necessarily get everybody to leave the cinema, so to speak.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanProblemRunningJobsAsksPoliticsSpeakPayAttentionPolicyPoliticianEthicsCrisisPay AttentionCinemaDown The RoadProphetic Author:Arthur Caplan
“The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.” PeopleLongEndsReasonTodayYoungSocialNumbersPaySecurityFineTomorrowEuropeCrisisFasterRisingJapanSchemesOld PeopleSocial SecurityPensionRatiosPonzi Scheme Author:Milton Friedman
“We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.” NeedsSocialCan DoPayShareSecurityFairsAskingCrisisRetirementSocial SecurityBillionaireFair ShareLooming Author:Robert Reich
“I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.” PeopleWayPayBloodCrisisScandal Author:Suzy Welch
“The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.” ThinkingWayMatterBodyChoicesForceDifficultPayConsequenceConcernCrisisBest WayRealmsRemoveObesityPublic HealthAlleviate Author:Radley Balko
“The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.” AmericaFacesPayEconomicCrisisDollarsClockBubblesDeclinePrintingTerminalLendersClock Is TickingEconomic Depression Author:Peter Schiff
“I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksMeanI CanEnoughFactsKidsEffortPayAttentionAchieveResourcesFairsCrisisPay AttentionCodeFortunateOur TimeNot FairGood EducationZips Author:Condoleezza Rice
“It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.” MenLittlesUseProblemPastPayQualityHe ManCrisisLipsLoyaltyEndeavorSincerely Book:Letters and Speeches Source: Letters and Speeches
“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
“Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system.” BigsPayToolsCrisisBig Business Author:Kshama Sawant
“Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.” PeopleGivingWellsSaidHousePoorLevelsPayAcceptingKnowingIndustryCrisisBillsClintonProfitBarackMinoritiesEmsSchemesUnfairThey SaidBankingLoanJimmyMortgageCarterMortgage Crisis Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.” IfsWellsHappensValuesPayEffectsEuropeCrisisWesternDebtGreekBankingGreeceBanking SystemWestern EuropeBanking Crisis Author:John Major
“To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in times of uncertainty and insecurity. To be patriotic is to speak up against the powerful in defense of the weak and the voiceless. To be patriotic is to be willing to pay the price to preserve our freedoms, dignity, and rights. To be patriotic is to challenge the abuses of the PATRIOT Act.” GovernmentAbleSpeakChallengesFreedomPowerfulPayRightsPolicyWillingDignityWeakAbuseConstitutionCrisisBillsDefenseUncertaintyPreservesInsecurityPatrioticPatriotBill Of RightsPay The PriceVoicelessPatriot ActTimes Of CrisisGovernment Policy Author:Sami Al-Arian
“Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.” MatterSoundPayTaughtCrisisInvestment Author:Carlos Slim