Warren Rudman Quotes

#1. The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security ... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

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#2. What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, .. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

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#3. And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

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#5. We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

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#6. Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

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#7. And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

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#8. Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

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#9. The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

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#12. Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.

Fulton J. Sheen

#13. If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

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#14. I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

Bryce Harper

#15. Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

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#16. Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

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#17. I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

Patsy Cline

#18. It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

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#19. Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

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#20. This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

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#21. And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.

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#22. For women under thirty, the likelihood of being married had become astonishingly small: Today, only around 20 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are wed,4 compared to the nearly 60 percent in 1960.

Rebecca Traister

#23. I wonder if I'm just a punctured shadow of the person I was before.

Tahereh Mafi

#24. If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

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