Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

Such a vast power in a single hand is a disaster for the diversity of opinion in Germany.

Michael Chertoff

State and local authorities have the principal, first-line-of-response obligation, with respect to a disaster of this kind, ... Obviously, the law recognizes they can't do it themselves.

Jason Chaffetz

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.

Renters insurance is very valuable. And for not very much money, it can save you from disaster.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Brad Sherman

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

Anthony Collins

Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.

Bill Vaughan

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Kofi Annan

The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,

That was a real disaster. None of the streets were paved back then and many people lived in tents, so you can imagine everything was a real mess. If we'd had a drought that year, we'd still be the state capital.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

I think it's very important that we support this request. Not too many disasters happen in this country.

Elizabeth Bowen

It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.

Steve Jones

It is essential that older people are treated as a group with special and particular needs in these emergency situations as they usually get forgotten when disaster strikes.

Hun Sen

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

Chris Doyle

I feel really proud that in the wake of such a disaster that people are donating. They are going to have such an impact on a lot of people.

Katrina is the largest flood disaster in our nation's history, and it requires us to take a new look at how we process flood insurance claims. Our mutual goal is to get families into the recovery process as quickly as possible.

Tom Mann

Katrina is one of the most disruptive and challenging disaster in American history,

Charles Morgan

It also pays dividends for our state. When we have some type of national disaster or a manmade disaster, we can get video fairly quickly.

Because of the hurricane disaster, we reduced our rate by 25 percent.

Matthew Broderick

I loved 'Independence Day' and I've liked disaster movies since I was a kid. And to do one with those guys... why not? But I think 'Godzilla' with people who I didn't know anything about, I might have been worried, because it could have been who knows? But I read the script and thought it was really exciting and hey, I wasn't doing anything and it seemed like a very good thing to do.

Gavin Newsom

I feel we are very well prepared for a disaster ... but the reality is you can never be prepared enough. Never.

It is great to get a win like this to start the season after last year's disaster. The team has grown up from last year.

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

Wolfgang Petersen

I expect some people will walk out of the theater. But I don't want to be timid. I want to treat the disaster genre realistically. That's what makes it effective and truly scary.

If Y2K is a disaster it will be a global one, not a local one,

John Mica

There is an unquestionable need. It would have been a disaster if HUD had not granted the transfer and we hadn't had the other level of governments supporting this,

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

Donald Williams

Hurricanes and disasters should not be made worse by profiteering,

Hurricane Katrina was the largest disaster in U.S. history. It also occurred in a much-smaller state than Florida is.

Bertie Ahern

I would be a disaster, to put it at its mildest, if any of the institutions were to slide. I think people need to think very, very hard,