Amanda Lindhout Quotes

We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

We don’t negotiate for hostages’ release.

Telling families of hostages that the United States will not pay ransom is as tough as anything I do..

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the 'Sunday Times' - do take their training seriously. And I think they do only send experienced correspondents with proper insurance and proper training. And they don't force them to go where they don't want to go.

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

The best way to avoid hostages being taken in the future is to devalue the hostages that exist.

In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

All crises, once averted, become jokes.

We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.