Mitt Romney Quotes

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

Emergency does not create power.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.

Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too little.

Issues like security threats, declining traffic, high insurance premiums, rising fuel costs, among others, call for individual strengths to be aligned towards regional stability.

Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going on only makes matters worse.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

Despite PAL's troubles in the late 1990s, we were fortunate to have steered the company to clearer skies.

Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

Keeping his face clean over Watergate was one of Kissinger's biggest successes; so was his overall handling of the Yom Kippur War.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

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 think the thing is resolving problems rather than letting them fester.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.