Let No Crisis Go to Waste/Quotes

Film

These are unstable times for the republic, Anakin. Some see instability as an opportunity.

—Palpatine, from a deleted scene from Star Wars : Revenge of the Sith

Literature

Hurricane Katrina has just hit New Orleans, what do you do? If you said "privatize public schools", you might just be a conservative.

—from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Live Action Tv

Chaos isn't a pit.

Chaos is a ladder.

—Petyr Baelish, Game of Thrones

Western Animation

from The Simpsons:
Lisa: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"?
Homer: Yes! Cris-atunity.

Real Life

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
-- John F. Kennedy
It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.
-- Jo Moore, UK PR agent, Sept. 11, 2001
Having been attacked by al-Qa'ida, for us now to go bombing Iraq in response would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
-- Richard Clarke, National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, Sept 12, 2001

Never let a crisis go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.

—Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to U.S. President Obama