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.
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis. . . It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.
Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
Leaders flourish in times of crisis.
We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette
[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis. . . What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.
Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.
