Famous Quotes & Sayings

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Billy Tauzin

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

We are just writing ourselves a new disaster.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We should not wait for another disaster and let all of this happen and people dying and all this. The fact is we can go and do the work right now.

Michael Brown

We've got to come in as quickly as possible and do what we can to avert another disaster.

We know a lot of people lost their glasses in the disaster. And we just want to be here to help out.

Eduardo Galeano

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

We're looking at a disaster that will take months for people to recover from. We're in it for the long haul.

Busy Philipps

We're not co-sleeping. I'm all for what people want to do in their home, but I need my bed. I'm a terrible sleeper... I toss and turn and flip, and it would just be a disaster if there were a baby there. And I think it's important for a kid to have their own space.

Antonio Villaraigosa

The reality is when you have a disaster of that proportion, you need the federal government, ... I think the question is, is the federal government prepared to provide the resources that we need? I think that, clearly, by what we've seen in Louisiana, the jury's out.

Aaron Koblin

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

Rusty Schweickart

There are always natural disasters and it always seems as though the preparation is somewhat less than adequate. But we have had a series of quite substantial ones here in the last year.

When you look at disaster stories, it is usually that first time using a new piece of equipment that something is going to fall apart.

This survey is evidence that last year's natural disasters impacted these freshmen in a significant way.

When disasters strike as a result of unsafe medical devices, nobody should be surprised. This is just the latest example.

Eric Williams

We're treating the trailer park as a mass disaster area.

Too much technology and too much privacy, that's just a disaster waiting to happen.

Felipe Alou

We were right. But it turned out to be a disaster.

We were very well-prepared, but it's not going to be a breeze. This is a very large, large disaster, and it's going to require a lot of teamwork and patience.

Haley Barbour

We got hit by the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

We are seeing the handing over of a multiple-use valley to the energy industry. This is a disaster in the making.

Eli Roth

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.

We often see opportunistic pitches like this following disasters.

With a combination of last week's rains and (yesterday's rain), we could end up with a sizable disaster situation. It might not be a lot of major damage, but if it is spread out over the entire island, it could be significant.

Every time some type of natural disaster has hit, the people of this region have come back, and come back stronger than before. Failure is not an option. ... It's too important a task not to do it right.

Jeff Flake

Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster.

Today's disaster was a reason for the market to express its short-term fears.

We haven't removed them because in the event of a major disaster, they still work.

Johnny Vaughan

You just can't imagine the scale of this disaster or this happening to your own.

We hate to see the devastation and disaster some of the people experienced, but overall the storm was a big welcome. We needed it for all of our ranges and pastures and field crops.

Tom DeLay

We will raise the Katrina disaster as the top priority for the House, but at the same time we have other work that we will be working on,

Robert Johnson

Usually, they're sent overseas when there is a disaster,

We don't want to promote 'serial rebuilding,' ... The industry does weigh in in post-disaster debates.