Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Achilles' heel of emergency management is lack of interoperability.

The ambulance missions are staged through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Office, ... The volunteers must wait for the assignments that will tell them where they're going and what they're going to be doing.

We have an emergency plan. We are prepared to use pump and haul.

We can't handle an emergency if we don't have the equipment.

Roelof Botha

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

We'll request immediate clarification. We have an emergency system in place if something happened.

Jack Straw

We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.

We have the money, we have the housing and we have the emergency personnel. We stand by and are ready to assist.

Jim Thome

With the emergence of Ryan Howard, who had a tremendous year, to be honest, I didn't really know what would happen,

We have had every type of emergency you can imagine,

Richard Holbrooke

will emerge from his conversations with Secretary Albright.

Daniel Yergin

You'll have innovators and entrepreneurs and people trying ideas that may seem sensible today or may seem way out. But out of that whole soup will emerge some new ways of doing things.

We can't expect meaningful federal support to be on the ground providing provisions in an organized manner until probably the seventh day. Our emergency response system is geared toward everyday emergencies, not disasters. ... People need to be able to help themselves.

I think Michigan would like nothing more than to see GM emerge as a leaner and more profitable company,

Tom DeLay

It is fair to say the overall response to this emergency could have and should have been better,

William Ford

We are in luck because we actually incorporate pets into our emergency planning.

We have to structure and fund our emergency services internationally, the same way we do domestically. We don't wait until a house catches fire, then raise money for the fire department.

We don't even know how our equipment is going to be moved around from the various departments to fires. It is vitally important to have an emergency plan in place.

We'll look at ways to help emergency services respond more quickly and get the road open more quickly, so we don't have secondary accidents.

We are reaching a low point in the history of the profession. And as we eventually emerge from this it will be with a better profession, and a better financial market.

One of the remarkable things about Macedonia is that it is the only republic that has emerged out of Yugoslavia in which there is a multi-ethnic government.

I would be very surprised if they did not emerge in the next six months. But they've had a lot of misfires, and if they were better focused at the top they'd be out by now. They can get out, but if they don't do it with new management they'll be back in if they're not careful.

I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

Basically, the motels are our emergency shelters, and Paul is our shelter director.

I'm already so wet that if I stay, I'll end up in the emergency room.

I have an emergency service. I'll go out any time to help someone figure out what's wrong.

I don't say this lightly: Louisiana has emerged as a model for juvenile justice systems in this country.

Carrie Mae Weems

I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.

I emerged from summer league feeling that I would have no trouble, no problem playing Wayne Simien. And I think that's the first step for any player. ... I think he has the skills and the smarts and the toughness where you would have no problem.

Ari Fleischer

gives all parties an opportunity to seize the opportunity to emerge from the violence, to end the violence.

He's all right. We were very concerned, but we took him right to the emergency room. He says he feels fine. In a way, he snapped out of it real quick, for the most part.

Mitt Romney

just wouldn't be tenable on more than an emergency basis.

Mark Noll

I think it's an excellent opportunity to help out, ... It's also going to be a learning experience. This is the largest mobilization of emergency personnel we've ever seen.