“If ever there were a call for collective action -- a call for global leadership -- it is now.”

- Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, at a meeting of the Genaral Assembly, on the current financial crisis

 

“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

- Thomas Paine, (1737-1809) British writer, American Patriot, on the crisis facing General Washington and his American troops