“In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.” PeopleFactsTrumpCrisisRootedHousingHousing Crisis Author:Hillary Clinton
“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
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.” PeopleWayNumbersSupportGroupsEconomicTrumpEasierCrisisBlameRaisedImmigrantsVocabularyMurdererLatinoIntersectionsEconomic CrisisHappenstanceScumbags Author:Junot Diaz
“I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.” PeopleThinkingWarRealCountryGovernmentSocialEconomicDeserveCrisisPartnersCollapsePatriotPerilCalamityEcologicalAmerican GovernmentDislocationTug Of WarEconomic Collapse Author:Van Jones
“I'm super grateful to everybody for this, what we're calling, "The Emergency Session of the Trumpologists."I think, led us all to want to talk with the people who spent the most time studying and thinking about Trump. What does he do in his paramount moment of crisis? Help us to make sense of the sort of tumult unfolding around us.” PeopleThinkingMomentsHelpingStudyCrisisGratefulMake Sense Author:Susan Glasser
“[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.” PeopleEconomicAccountsCrisisEconomic Crisis Author:George W. Bush
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.” PeopleHumansWholeNaturalRacePovertyMillionsLandResourcesCrisisGreedHuman RaceFortyShelterDistressStolenNatural ResourcesPublic Lands Author:Denis Kearney
“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.” PeopleWorldLawBlackHalfWorstEmotionalAnxietyCrisisCanadaImmigrantsManipulationTrendsExploitationHiv Author:Sarah Schulman
“I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindAbleActionPoliticalEnergyBitsMoralIssuesRightsSacrificeRevolutionYears AgoImportanceCrisisCivil RightsHeatUnconventionalMoral IssuesPolitical Action Author:Bill McKibben
“It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.” PeopleKindBehaviorCrisisSurfaceBelow The Surface Author:Peter Buffett
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I don't have support. Not me ; all Syria. Every agreement is between every class and every sector in Syria ; government, people, trade, military, culture, everything ; it's like the cooperation between your country and any other country in the world. It's the same cooperation. It's not about me ; it's not support for the crisis.” PeopleWorldCountryGovernmentCultureClassSupportMilitaryCrisisTradeAgreementCooperationOther CountriesSyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.” PeopleMindAbleGrowthEconomyWorstReturnCrisisInstitutionsFinancial1930sFinancial System Author:Barack Obama
“There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.” PeopleNeedsLittlesHelpingJobsForceJusticeLateProgramTasksDirectCrisisImpactObviousAdministrationDepartmentReportsToo LateMortgage1930sTask ForcesMortgage Crisis Author:Jesse Jackson
“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.” PeopleMadeProblemDealsEconomyEconomicConsequenceProgramCrisisGreekGreeceAusterityEconomic Crisis Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.” PeopleWorldWantCompassionEuropeCrisisSafetyResponseExtraordinarySeekingHumanitarianGreekIslandsAdmirationRefugeeMigrants Author:Barack Obama
“You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s.” PeopleKnowsSometimesCasesMagicCrisisTricksOrganizedCaterpillarsMagic Tricks Author:Noam Chomsky
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters
“On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.” PeopleWorldDoeRunningSchoolSocialChurchCrisisAround The WorldWelfarePriestsShelterHomelessNunSocial Welfare Author:Anna Quindlen
“I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsPastMetsCrisis Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.” PeopleNeedsYearsAmericaNationsImaginationGreaterAwarenessConcernYears AgoCrisisRaisedMathFiftyLackingGreater GoodMath EducationEducation In AmericaSputnik Author:Katherine Paterson
“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.” PeopleWayImportantUseFilmWaterRightsTroubleMovementRevolutionCrisisExcitedDebtDialogueCivil RightsExecutivesPlatformsDocumentariesNew OrleansCivil Rights MovementInvitingSoundtracksForumsDebt Crisis Author:Danny Glover
“Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.” PeopleDemocracyDependsCreatingCrisisSpeaking Out Author:Howard Zinn
“The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.” PeopleThinkingGivingDifferentCircumstancesMajorsTrainingCrisisCreditCampaignsSignificantEnterpriseMidstExecutivesGood Sense Author:Barack Obama
“In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesWould BeIndividualWaitingMembersRedAppreciateBasesCrisisBlueCongressExtremesCampaignsMidstVotersSenatorsSeverePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the big banks. She's tying the Republican Party to the financial crisis in 2008. It's all their fault. She's tying herself as with the low-income crowd - and the average, ordinary middle class American - as their champion, as their defender. They don't know that it's not the Republicans in bed with banks. They don't know that it's the banks that are practically paying for and underwriting the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton today.” PeopleKnowsBigsTodayPartyClassRichStreetsMiddleWallRepublicanBedLowsOrdinaryCrisisFaultsClintonDemocratFinancialAverageCrowdsIncomeChampionMiddle ClassGet AwayRepublican PartyRich PeopleDefendersFinancial CrisisLow Income Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Students will want to address the issues that they have a passion for, but I think that the challenge to this generation is the challenge of the climate crisis. Young people bring more enthusiasm, knowledge and sense of urgency on that issue. This is as planet they will inherit, they have a responsibility for it as well, and part of that responsibility is to urge people in power to make the right decisions about how we go forward.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsYoungPassionChallengesDecisionResponsibilityIssuesGenerationsStudentsPlanetsCrisisClimateEnthusiasmAddressesUrgesUrgencyThis GenerationRight DecisionSense Of UrgencyMake The Right Decision Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I've never been one of those people who has an extremely high level of crisis. I just don't need all that emotional drama.” PeopleNeedsLevelsEmotionalDramaCrisisHigh Level Author:Demi Moore
“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
“We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the Party and the state from crisis. Without him the Chinese people would, at the very least, have spent much more time groping in the dark.” PeopleStatesDarkPartyMistakeClearFourCrimeCrisisGood ThingsVery GoodSavedChineseDistinctionMore TimeGangChairmanMaoChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping
“People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.” PeopleValuesNextOpportunityChallengesGroupsCrisisOptimisticRealisticBlinders Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate.” PeopleWorldLeaderDemocracyIndustryBecomingVoteCrisisEntertainmentCandidatesBranchesVery DeepEntertainment IndustryBest Leader Author:Amos Oz
“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
“I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantAmericaPoliticalTalkingRight NowCrisisNostalgiaBritainOld DaysGood Old Days Author:Mohsin Hamid
“At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis from which we cannot return. The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.” PeopleFirstsWaterTakenStageReturnMountainSolutionsCrisisTablesCome UpDroppingMinerals Author:Arundhati Roy
“Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.” PeopleYearsStoriesGovernmentPastIndustryCrisisAverageFatsPoundsCheeseEarnestRespondingCaloriesSaturatedFood IndustryProcessed Food Author:Michael Moss
“Now we have things that are obviously false, leading us to war, leading us to deny people health care, leading us to ignore the climate crisis. We have to restore the integrity of the democratic conversation.” PeopleWarCareIntegrityConversationCrisisDemocraticClimateDenyHealth Care Author:Al Gore
“People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed draws hostility because of its power, its insulation from democratic accountability, its lack of transparency, and because of its historical and structural connections to finance.” PeopleAmericaEconomicDrawsConnectionsCrisisAngryHistoricalDemocraticFinanceAccountabilityFedsReservesHostilityGet RealTransparencyFederal ReserveEconomic CrisisInsulation 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 every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.” PeopleGivingLeaderFindingsCrisisRecognizing Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesEarthAmericaJusticeMillionsIssuesChangedBrokenRacismPoliceCrisisCriminalsAfrican AmericanJailOther CountriesOngoingJustice SystemHispanicCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemUnarmedCustodyInstitutional Racism Author:Bernie Sanders
“For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.” PeopleWorldEndsHappensKidsYoungLife IsWonderfulMediaNormalProjectsCrisisEntrepreneurStartingDaily LifeLife Is LikeCoverageNormal LifeSudanBeing A KidYoung EntrepreneursStarting UpMedia Coverage Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Everybody has to find it whatever helps. Religion is very helpful for people. A good friend is very helpful. A priest is very helpful. A rabbi is very helpful. You just have to find it. But when you get depressed or when you face a crisis, don't feel you have to do it alone.” PeopleFeelsHelpingFacesCrisisHelpfulPriestsGood FriendRabbi Author:Sherry Lansing
“Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has contributed to the crisis in Christianity in North America. Traditional Christian language is becoming less familiar to millions of people. The language is frequently misunderstood by people.” PeopleMeanChristianLanguageChristianityCrisisFamiliarMisunderstood Author:Marcus Borg
“As a physician who was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, getting drunk on weekends, stressed out about having 35 patients in the hospital, and not being able to help either them or myself, I had my existential crisis way before I met Maharishi. I did meet him and he was an influence, but I met many other people as well.” PeopleHelpingInfluenceCrisisPatientDrunkSmokingWeekendCigaretteExistentialStressedStressed OutGetting Drunk Author:Deepak Chopra
“The single biggest way to stop the drug crisis is to educate people on the fact that if you do it, it's probably going to kill you or it's going to ruin your life. So why don't we all work together to stop that?” PeopleTogetherDrugCrisisWorking TogetherEducate Author:John Kasich
“I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don't know that won't happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.” PeopleThinkingKindCareCommunityFocusCrisisClimate ChangeFocusedAll KindsSomedayRefugee Author:Chris Cornell
“People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalHouseBlackLeaderWonderStudentsCrisisClimate ChangeFinancialLoanEcologicalFinancial CrisisBlack HoleStudent Loan Author:Kalle Lasn