Yoshihide Suga Quotes

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.

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.

Tunisia, which is dear to all of us, is going through difficult circumstances, exceptional circumstances, that necessitate exceptional measures to face them and prevent a worse situation Our security forces are in a full alert status, but we do have weaknesses as our prime minister admitted. We are not blaming anyone, but we are calling for everyone to feel and act responsibly. If such incidents happen again, the state will collapse. It is the duty of the president to take a stance.

There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients, that in the ordinary state of things ought to be forborne, become essential to the public weal.

The government bodies known to you have presented me a resignation demand. Taking into account that the execution of the constitutional power of the president in the situation that has been created could pose serious danger to the stability of the country, I accept that demand and announce my resignation.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.

Let's cause some senators distress.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

The people will turn to us [the Republicans] and the country will be saved.

Many think it is not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences laws or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principals, to accommodate it.

Recalling our history which has been characterized by political and constitutional instability …

The current situation [in Washington DC] will shortly and irresistibly tempt the Congress to reassert federal control over the nation's capital city. If the mayor [Marion Barry] can't restore order, the federal government must.

For better or worse the country has no alternative other than trust the President when we are at war.

… a menace to our institutions

In times of crisis, we should have a period of 6 months of dictatorship to straighten things up, then return to democracy.

All that can be done is to play for time to save the country from further shocks that might destroy it entirely.

Mr. President, If you don’t do something and do it right away, I don’t know what is going to happen to this country.

The nation of which [Warren G.] Harding became President was not happy, and forces were underway seemed likely, unless arrested, to bring more serious unhappiness.

There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state.

If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.