Let No Crisis Go to Waste/Quotes

Film
"These are unstable times for the republic, Anakin. Some see instability as an opportunity."

- Palpatine, from a deleted scene from Star Wars : Revenge of the Sith

Literature
"Hurricane Katrina has just hit New Orleans, what do you do? If you said "privatize public schools", you might just be a conservative."

- from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Western Animation
"from The Simpsons:

Lisa: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"?

Homer: Yes! Cris-atunity."

Real Life
"When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

-- John F Kennedy

It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.

-- Jo Moore, UK PR agent, Sept. 11, 2001

Having been attacked by al-Qa'ida, for us now to go bombing Iraq in response would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

-- Richard Clarke, National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, Sept 12, 2001

Never let a crisis go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things."

- Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to U.S. President Obama