Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

We are just writing ourselves a new disaster.

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.

Jason Giambi

We could have easily had the momentum swing and gotten swept. We could have turned this into a disaster.

Orlando Bloom

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

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.

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.

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,

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

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

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.

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.

We see this as a major humanitarian disaster for the people of this region.

The government should have learned its lesson from steel tariffs -- they were a big disaster. I don't think these protectionist measures will be passed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Brown

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

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