Government Crisis Quotes

We can't have the government of the United States shut down when a group doesn't like something. This is almost an act of insurrection.

Unless I am gravely mistaken, I am the only reporter in this city, teeming with reporters, who goes to bed every night praying that he is dead wrong. I see danger—fearful danger—hanging over this country that I love. I keep hoping it is a mirage, in which case I shall indeed be dead wrong.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

We have a major crisis in the system. the Preisdent is so powerful that he overehelms the rest of the Government. .... This has been going on for over 50 years. Each president adds more and more power.... Congress is crippled and cowardly .... They don't use their appropriations power. They have been passing continuing resultions for 20 years.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

Tell Dr. Madison that we are now willing to submit to his Philadelphia lawyer for head of the Treasury. The public patient is so very sick that we must swallow anything, however nauseous.

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

Prime Minister, our party won’t have you, and I think I am right in saying that the country won’t have you either.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises.

If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Even before V. P. Singh was shifted, the media was creating an impression that he was facing difficulties. This was totally incorrect.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Gordon is in trouble. For the honor of the government and the nation you must try and save him.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.