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If the late 1960s is basis for comparison, things could get worse. The turmoil of the late 1960s didn't end with things becoming calmer, but the fault lines only intensified, in many ways we have been red hot ever since. Sometimes red hot moments such as this don't fizzle but generate a foundation for future political battles. I think that's the case right now, especially since there are institutions such as the partisan media that will continue to fuel the flames...

Julian Zelizer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The times in your life where you do hard things, you look adversity in the eye and face it down; despite possibly fearness in a turmoil of fear would be the best times of your life. These things you look back on as the building blocks of your person that you ultimately become. ~Dr. Craig Challen

Craig Challen

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Despite some personal turmoil, I remain hopeful for the future for both my family and for our nation.

Lee Zeldin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I'm troubled by the calls to go after internet advertising, especially during a time of such economic turmoil like we face today with Covid, it's true that making it more difficult to target ads would affect the revenue of companies like Facebook. But the much bigger cost of such a move would be to reduce the effectiveness of the ads and opportunities for small businesses to grow. ... it would probably be felt at a macroeconomic level.

Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If your asset allocation was appropriate for your risk tolerance ahead of the turmoil, then there is no need to change it now,” explained Dejan Ilijevski, president of Sabela Capital Markets. “Changing your asset allocation now would be driven by your emotions, rather than on the decisions you made when you were more rational and relaxed.”

Dejan Ilijevski

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The isolation, the fear, the uncertainty, the economic turmoil - they all cause or could cause psychological distress.

Devora Kestel

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The regimes priority remains its own survival and financing its proxies and partners over its people. Even during this time of economic turmoil, according to the U.S. State Department, Irans supreme leader just last month increased funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 33 percent higher than President Rouhanis original request and more than doubled the funding of the Basij. So, the risk of diversion of funds looms large.

Jason Brodsky

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Periods of turmoil underscore the value of a trusted adviser and a global platform that spans not only M&A but also restructuring and sovereign advisory, we remain active advising clients as they navigate the drivers of how long the crisis will last, how they should adjust their balance sheets, and what else they should be doing to respond.

Peter Orszag

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If market turmoil and volatility persist, we will see a polarization between companies in more resilient sectors which can better withstand this crisis, and distressed players in the worst-affected sectors which will be starving for cash.

Paulo Pereira

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We think U.S. investors have been slow to recognize the significance of COVID relative to global peers, particularly to those located in Asia, we expected to see more repatriation flows here, as home bias tends to prevail in periods of market turmoil.

Grant Wilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I have to believe they will take one sooner rather than later. It's clear notwithstanding all the decades since Roe v. Wade that there is intense disagreement among Americans, anytime you have that much turmoil in the political process it's going to create conflicts the court must address.

John Bursch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What Judge Hunter wants to do is play by Judge Hunter own set of rules, that's the very attitude and the very conduct that put Judge Hunter in the predicament that Judge Hunter's in and, frankly, has caused all this pain to Judge Hunter and caused all this turmoil to the community.

Scott Croswell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the midst of the massive political turmoil of the mid-1960's Vietnam era, audiences found solace in the lives and music of the singing Von Trapp family.

Paul Dergarabedian

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But after Season 10, we had some big shifts in front of the camera, behind the camera, it became my goal to have an experience there that I could be happy and proud about, because we had so much turmoil for 10 years.

Shonda Rhimes

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We try to come up with what could happen in Gilead ... (But) if you're going to make television that is tied to the real world, it's going to be as disquieting as the political turmoil the world seem to be going through right now.

Bruce Miller

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When I felt cornered in my life and wrought with crisis and turmoil, I wondered why friends stayed silent.

RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

It's very complicated inside Britain, i know they're going through a lot of turmoil. But really I think the president would like to reassure the people of the United Kingdom how strongly we feel, that we want to be there when they do come out of the European Union.

John Bolton

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Most presidents have used (White House) Oval Office addresses for noble purposes. This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration.

Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What made her talent so great was her capacity to live what she sang, her music was deepened by her connection to the struggles and the triumphs of the African American experience growing up in her father's church, the community of Detroit, and her awareness of the turmoil of the South.

Aretha Franklin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Just spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia and explained to him that, because of the turmoil dysfunction in Iran and Venezuela, I am asking that Saudi Arabia increase oil production, maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels, to make up the difference...Prices to high! He has agreed!

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You realize how much our identity has been wrapped up, about what we want, and how we see people, and how hard it is to sell a movie without a gun — no wonder we’re in turmoil over this subject.

Ethan Hawke

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He's a show boat, he's a grand stander, the FBI has been in turmoil. You know that, I know that. Everybody knows that.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When you turn on the news, it's like, from Syria to Iraq to Libya, those places are all in turmoil, so that's what people think of the whole region ... When people say, 'Oh, Iranians make art?' it means (Iranians are) compassionate people; they're people who have sensitivity, feelings, a sense of perspective. That's something that you don't see that much because, unfortunately, the media does not show that positive narrative.

Mohammed Afkhami

Found on CNN
7 years ago

On the economic side this will again raise concerns about the tourism sector which is struggling, partly due to security concerns and partly because of Russia, but the market impact overall is not that significant as there is a general improvement in investor sentiment and some of the Brexit turmoil seems to be fading a bit.

William Jackson at Capital Economics

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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