Unprecedented Challenges Quotes

President Karzai was an accidental president. There was no paradigm for the conditions he faced, because no one could have imagined 9/11. He had to improvise under very difficult conditions to hold this country together.

Facts and events … have been too strong for the Government.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.

Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

This generation and the one to come will not see the end in fact of the Great War, so far as our economic and social problems are concerned…. the Great War broke all business conditions away from their past moorings and left the world's affairs adrift in a stormy sea without compass or rudder.

The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

It takes extraordinary times to make an ordinary man brilliant.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

The warnings of the last 4 years have been ignored. As a result, every single alternative before us is accompanied by grave risks.

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

Threats I have faced are unprecedented.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.

Amid the pressure of world events, neither a general principle nor the remembrance of similar circumstances is of any help .... Something like pale recollection has no power against the vitality and freedom of the present

I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.