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There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#although #bear #before #broader #built

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#behavior #broaden #continue #deepen #financial

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#around #by the time #directors #flash #going

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#along #beats #case #comes #disappears

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#currently #five #go #happens #i

The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#borders #combination #country #danger #dangerous

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#given #happens #help #help people #hopefully

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#beginning #definition #europe #genocide #happened

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#defeat #either #happens #something #you