Top 1200 Refugee Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

I will work towards ensuring that farmers do not face any crisis and live up to the confidence they have reposed in me.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.

WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.

As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and their future.

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

President Obama's Department of Education pledged to solve the student debt crisis, but it was utterly inept in its effort to address the issue.

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that.

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a lot of money for it. The way I tell my story or my opinion would be very similar in both fiction and documentary forms. But I found I could speak more effectively to convey this brutal reality through documentary than I could through fiction.

Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.

There is crisis in Europe, where Russia is the principle intriguer and player, which affects a major source of international business and flow of capital.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

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.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

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.

It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis and even a collapse if the U.K. left.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.