Keeping his face clean over Watergate was one of Kissinger's biggest successes; so was his overall handling of the Yom Kippur War.
Emergency does not create power.
I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously
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.
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
Every president since George Washington has respected this clause in the Constitution. We want to avoid that Constitutional potential crisis. And the way to do it is for Donald Trump - it's not about him.
We don't want to have to rely on last-minute goals every time!
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.
Despite PAL's troubles in the late 1990s, we were fortunate to have steered the company to clearer skies.
We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.
History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
Not having a country with a financial crisis in the year is a pretty big deal to me. But something that didn’t happen is not something that people will focus on.
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
