Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.
If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
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.
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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.
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.
The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
