Yoshihide Suga Quotes

Political void should never be allowed to happen at a time of national crisis.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

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.

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.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Emergency does not create power.

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.

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.

Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role.

The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

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.

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

The actions you plan to take and the actions you actually decide to take [in a crisis] are not always the same.

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

The nation’s disaster mechanisms do not seem to be in the hands of those who know how to use them.

Unilateralism in secret is sometimes necessary at the height of a crisis.