That Rahm Emmanual quote, “Never let a crisis go to waste ...”) is basically a rephrasing of something from Game of Thrones. The Peytr Baelish character says, “Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.”
Baelish introduces as much chaos as possible, because he is (was) a man with ambitions.
Um, it's older than a TV show, I think. "Ex Chaos facultas"