Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
~By John Le Carre ~
In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
~By Robert Casey ~
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.
~By David Friedman ~
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
~By Sean Lennon ~
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.
~By Johnnie Cochran ~
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
~By Kevin Costner ~
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
~By H. G. Wells ~
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
~By Huston Smith ~
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~By Barry Commoner ~
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.
~By Rodrigo Rato ~
I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.
~By Jim Walsh ~
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
~By Susan Taylor ~
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
~By James A. Garfield ~
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?
~By Timothy Murphy ~
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
~By John Cusack ~
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
~By Brad Henry ~
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.
~By Dominique de Villepin ~
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
~By Joe Slovo ~
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
~By Bianca Jagger ~
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
~By Al Waleed bin Talal ~
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
~By Robert Reich ~
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
~By Brooke Foss Westcott ~
If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.
~By Charles Schumer ~
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.
~By Denis Kearney ~
Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
~By Jerry Brown ~
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
~By Pete du Pont ~
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
~By Michael Johns ~
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
~By Susan George ~
Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
~By Achille Maramotti ~
I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
~By Jan Egeland ~
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
~By Mark Dayton ~
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
~By Josh McDowell ~
You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
~By Timothy Dalton ~
I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.
~By Rob Lowe ~
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
~By Gene Robinson ~
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.
~By Flavor Flav ~
I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
~By Claire Danes ~
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.
~By Robert Greenwald ~
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
~By Bradley A. Blakeman ~
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
~By Edward Albert ~
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
~By Raymond Williams ~
As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
~By Richard Eberhart ~
In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
~By Frank Shorter ~
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
~By Norman Cousins ~
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
~By William P. Leahy ~
Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
~By Paul Ryan ~
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
~By David Kay ~
The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
~By Larry Summers ~
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
~By George Montgomery ~
We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
~By Paul Bryant ~
The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
~By Joe Slovo ~
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.
~By Richard Neal ~
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
~By Jeanette Rankin ~
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
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