Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carson Palmer

It's one of those things you can't go into full-bore, ... You need to see what you're comfortable with and test it and move on from there step by step. It can be a disaster if you don't do it right. If you try to do too much, guys are confused. We've taken it really slow and tried to improve on it.

It's the new pork. Disaster declarations are a way you can pump federally mandated monies into communities without going through Congress.

Laura Bush

This is what happens when there is a natural disaster of this scope,

It is the biggest-ever disaster in the history of Pakistan,

Bob Arum

It's a disaster ready to happen again. Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these guys who are the big names so important?

Bob Arum

It's a disaster ready to happen again, ... Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these guys who are the big names so important?

It's a disaster for him, I think. It's never a good thing for a president to say he doesn't know something.

It's a disaster for Europe and a huge problem for future growth.

It's a really great thing for volunteers to have. It makes them more useful during a disaster. When I went to Mississippi for Katrina, there were times down there when they didn't have enough drivers.

This is the largest single mobilization for a single natural disaster in the U.S..

This is the largest response to a single natural disaster in the 125 years of the American Red Cross, and there's no doubt it will set many records in terms of the length and expanse of the operation.

This is the largest disaster we've ever been a part of. We're kind of flying by the seat of our pants.

This is unprecedented in the history of the US, to have had a national disaster of this magnitude with a diaspora of this magnitude.

This is unlike any disaster we've ever had to handle.

Angelina Jolie

There's another disaster that could happen very soon.

It's a technical, structural disaster. This is long overdue.

It was the miracle day and the disaster day also because there were a lot of miracle stories to be told.

It was a very strong performance in microprocessors and an expected but welcome improvement in what's been a disaster in flash memory.

Tom Morello

It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe.

It's a white disaster zone. I've never seen anything like it.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

Michael Brown

People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.

People are being generous and I want them to but every penny that comes in here marked disaster goes to disaster. We don't keep anything locally for overhead. It all goes to disaster.

Jon Corzine

Over the past few weeks, we have all seen what happens when we fail to take the necessary steps before disaster strikes.

Rebecca Solnit

Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.

Jason Chaffetz

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

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

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

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

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.

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.