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“In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.”

“Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.”

Should Humans Artist Poverty Land Skills Despair Paint Wounded Debacles

Author:Keri Hulme

“Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.”

Ifs World Needs Children Helping Moving Social Teach Cases Media Our Children Social Media Educated Bike Navigate Virtual World Debacles

Author:Amy Jo Martin

“The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Political Guy Suicide Metaphor Debt Flying Horrible Bombs Law Enforcement Avenues Ceilings Pennsylvania Debt Ceiling Debacles

Author:Charlie Cook

“In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.”

People Home Decision Creative Consequence Bigger California Expensive Buying Staying Housing Payment Financing Debacles

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.”

Feels Should Country Helping Government School Sports Fairs Blame Debacles

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are.”

People Has Beens Said Courses Given Issues Trouble Election Iraq Interviews Accountability Complaints Rice Endorsements Reelection Debacles

Author:Seymour Hersh

“I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle of a year and a half back and said, "We want to de-fund Planned Parenthood," he said, "Not going to happen." Those apparently were more or less his exact words.”

Want Years Said Happens Eye Half Members Office Court Congress Budgets Fund Parenthood Planned Parenthood Debacles

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.”

Happened Hills Debacles

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.”

Ifs World Way Should Humans Has Beens Problem Together Certain Scene Lows Should Have Absolutes Diplomacy Delegates Farce Copenhagen Low Points Debacles

Author:Bill McKibben

“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.”

Want Three Rich Politician Taxes Percent Budgets Seventies Captured Debacles

Author:Bill Ayers

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.”

Men Kind Made Said Hard Would Be Wanted Father My Own Gone Expectations Get Up Pledge Knocked Down Measure Of A Man Debacles

Author:Joe Biden

“I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”

Needs Memories Effort Drink Wipe Debacles Futile Efforts

Book:Succubus Revealed

Source: Succubus Revealed

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

“It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.”

Believe Government Action Grows Difficult President Decision Situation Financial Congress Folly Addresses Federal Government Predecessors Tsunami Difficult Decisions Debacles Congress And The President

Author:Mark Levin

“There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.”

Ifs Problem Rooms Military Broken Fingers Iraq Core Plenty Pointing No Point Pointing Fingers Debacles Apaches

Author:Bruce Riedel

“It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.”

Columbia Debacles

Author:J Harlen Bretz

“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”

Looks Political Military Victory Majors Debacles Political Victory

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?”

Past Black Rocks Clouds Pursuit Investigation Monday Chill Debacles

Author:Tina Brown

“Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.”

Giving Long Has Beens Enough Desire Opportunity Simple Blood Design Function Engineers Forgiven Virgins Could Have Been Chamber Rockets Goats Firing Debacles

Author:Norman Mailer

“I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.”

Hate Pages Classic Jimmy Kashmir Debacles Jammu And Kashmir

Author:Chuck D

“Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.”

Keys Findings Preventing Debacles

Author:Chuck Grassley