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.

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

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

We have had every type of emergency you can imagine,

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.

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.

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.

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.

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

There is no gas except to fuel emergency vehicles,

Tony Butler

We're probably looking at short term, that's from now until January. But there are also emergency loans which start from one month and can be extended to three so they are a possibility as well.

We've got to keep our emergency vehicles going.

Hundreds of national and international humanitarian staff have been working in what has become the largest winter emergency operation ever.

He is truly an honorable man. He has an incredible wealth of knowledge about everything: about the ocean, about government, about this community, about public safety, about emergency response.

I'd be right in the middle of it. You just got to be on the ground immediately, with all your emergency response people.

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

We felt it was very important to let people know there are more manatees now than there were 25 years ago. So we're not in any emergency situation; we are in a situation where we have to manage the species carefully.

We explain that our No. 1 priority is to open up main thoroughfares for emergency vehicles.

Nancy Gibbs

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

When there is severe weather, like a tornado, you don't want to be tying up the emergency phone lines.

We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.

Harvey V. Fineberg

The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.