Crisis Quotes

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.

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!'

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

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.

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

[Hillary] Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before.

This declaration alone will help stop the crisis of illegal crossings and illegal overstays, very importantly.

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

All crises, once averted, become jokes.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

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.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

Philippine education is in crisis

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know.

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.