- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disaster Quotes
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Modern civilization can feel fragile, balanced precariously against threats like terrorism, disease, and natural catastrophe on a global scale. When disaster strikes at massive scale, the earliest hours afterward often determine everything that follows, a theme in our Crisis quotes.
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- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that.
- Compound
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.
- Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It came down to the AHCA or the continued disaster of Obamacare, which was an easy choice. The AHCA is a major improvement, because a federal one-size-fits-all approach to health care isn't the answer.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have the technology, and it's in part preventable because it's predictable.
- Nov 07, 2020
Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.
Local governments are sometimes singled out as the one part of a system truly equipped to respond when catastrophe hits close to home. Post-war eras have shown how quality can slip when there's no competition pushing improvement. Read more in our Disasters, Disastrous, and Emergency quotes.