“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.” CoursesNationsPresidentEventsCrisisSuicideCampaignsTerroristPresidentialMarineBombingIranianHostageTerrorist AttacksHelicoptersPresidential CampaignSomaliaSept 11BeirutDowningHostage CrisisMogadishu Author:Mark McKinnon
“President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.” SocialPresidentSecurityDangerCrisisSocial SecurityPresident BushManufacturingSuggesting Author:Richard Neal
“Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.” IfsActionHumanityPresidentRepublicanCrisisThreatClimateClimate ChangeDivisionRivalsRomney Author:Ron Fournier
“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.” YearsMayLongPresidentWonderBreakEconomyFourEconomicElectionCrisisTrackArguingCampaignsPresident ObamaFour YearsRight TrackEconomic CrisisSurrogatesAmerican Economy Author:Jon Meacham
“We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.” IfsNeedsMayTodayEnergyPresidentSituationPlansSolutionsManagementCrisisDemocratGasSenateElectricityComprehensiveGas PricesCrisis ManagementPatchwork Author:Scott McClellan
“Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.” ShouldHomeCertainPresidentDealsInformationOughtDirectorsNewsCrisisUniversityVicesGrayFloridaExplainingAssistantsVice PresidentConsultantsOrlandoExplaining Things Author:Linda Gray
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.” WorldRealPresidentPromiseCrisisOilAbundanceFuelGasReal WorldFossilsTanksFossil FuelStaggeringSeaweedKeystonesAlgae Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.” WorldShouldImportantMomentsAmericaAsksPresidentTermChallengesAttentionRolesBreakStreetsPolicyManagementCrisisStrategyLaysEndureCommandForeign PolicyEgyptRevoltBreak OutLibyaTacticalCrisis ManagementKiev Author:Fareed Zakaria
“President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.” KnowsStillsTwoWarCountryPresidentOpinionBrokenShapesMy FriendsCrisisFinancialMessGapsPresident ObamaMortgageFinancial Crisis Author:Don Cheadle
“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
“You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.” KnowsWorldLooksWarNextPresidentClearColdBattleThirdsRegardCrisisFollowingVietnamCold WarCubaThird WorldViennaPresident KennedyJack Kennedy Author:Alexander Haig
“President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.” PeopleEnoughLawSpeakNationsPresidentSecretFocusCitizensCrisisCriticsBrokeCourageousBossLiedViolationPresident BushAttorneySpeaks Out Author:Anthony Romero
“President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.” WellsWarPresidentCrisisCardsMissilesCubanPresident KennedyCuban Missile Crisis Author:Colin Powell
“Newly released transcripts reveal that President Nixon was drunk during the Arab-Israeli crisis of 1973. After hearing this, President Bush said, 'Hey, so was I!'” SaidPresidentCrisisHearingDrunkHeyIsraeliPresident BushPresident Nixon Author:Conan O'Brien
“This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].” WayFirstsDifficultPresidentCrisisBillsClintonDuesBarackOrganizeBankingBanking SystemPresident Bill ClintonPresident Ronald Reagan Author:Costa-Gavras
“Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” IfsWorldYearsSaidStatesAmericaRememberGuyPresidentUnitedWatchesUnited StatesMonthsSixStandingTestsMarkCrisisInternationalBrilliantBarackSenatorsUnited States Of AmericaSix MonthsThis GuyMettleJohn Kennedy Author:Joe Biden
“I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.” PeopleCountryHelpingWantedPoliticalMotivationOrderDifficultPresidentEffortSituationEconomicNeededOvercomingDifficultyCrisisEdgesRanDisappointedElitesDifficult TimesEconomic CrisisLithuaniaNeeded Change Author:Dalia Grybauskaite