Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Egeland

If we don't work together we will become a disaster within a disaster.

Jeb Bush

If this responsibility is federalized then that will be as big of a disaster as any natural disaster that hits our communities.

Rick Renzi

If this kind of a natural disaster or a disaster involving weapons of mass destruction happened in his (Flake's) district, he'd be singing a different tune,

If it looks like a storm is going to come in, as a disaster task force, we should get prepared.

He hasn't looked back since then (the Stanford disaster).

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

He did very well with disasters in the past and it always helped him, his presidency and his popularity,

We can maybe irrigate one more time. We've been on the verge of disaster all summer.

What do I think? It's wonderful. A strike would have been such a disaster.

Mental health that's disaster-related is very different from traditional mental-health services.

Warren Rudman

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

One little natural disaster, a refinery fire, any type of instability in various parts of the world could push us over that edge.

New Orleans is an economic disaster. This tragedy is so unprecedented people could be out of work for three, six, nine months or longer.

Rick Perry

Natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA, ... Texas is willing to work and do our part, but FEMA has to sit down and come up with a long-term, thoughtful plan.

Most skills and competencies needed to excel in logistics and supply-chain management are the same skills and competencies needed to excel at disaster relief operations.

Barbara Johnson

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

Less than a week after a major disaster and we're already putting people in housing. We think that's pretty remarkable.

Mark Rosenker

Learning to drive and being distracted is a recipe for disaster.

Irwin Redlener

Many people will be stressed and will require support over a long period of time and will be vulnerable to psychological problems. We know this from other disaster experiences.

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

We're simulating a real-life disaster to identify the types of situations we could potentially face.

Kofi Annan

Liberia today is poised between hope and disaster,

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

We are handling the worst disaster in Pakistan's history.

When a big disaster happens, it heightens the philanthropic impulse.

Nancy Farmer

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

Warren Rudman

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

We'd much rather educate and prepare for disaster than have to respond to it. But I really do feel that if something happened here, we'd be prepared, and more so than other places.

We don't know how we can move 2 million people - and keep in mind we've got 8.6, ... If a disaster occurred in New York, millions of people would evacuate through New Jersey, so you'd have them plus our millions.

Jeb Hensarling

We don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we know something is going to happen, ... These are natural disasters, but they shouldn't be unanticipated.

We do frequent disaster drills, but nothing will test the system like the real thing. We did this without a glitch.

The prospect of no election is to me, in my humble opinion a national disaster waiting to happen, but which can be prevented or remedied by congressional action.

Nan Hayworth

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.